Poem
Urszula Koziol
psalm
liberated from me you shan’t free yourself of mewhile you’re in me I’ll keep repeating you
it is enough to notice it for it to take possession. And it pays
by remaining
in the inadvertent host
complementary exchange:
a tree within us and us within the tree
entrusted to endure
multiplied leaf by leaves
and divided by the word
and separated by the flesh
we find ‘it’
in what eyes perceive
no distance will keep us distant while
you’re inside me
at the point the place
where I shan’t find you
there in the final scattering
divisible multipliant
I shall be whole
© Translation: 1999, Barbara Plebanek and Tony Howard
PSALM
© 1999, Ursula Koziol
From: Stany Nieoczywistoœci
Publisher: PIW, Warszawa
From: Stany Nieoczywistoœci
Publisher: PIW, Warszawa
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Poems of Urszula Koziol
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psalm
liberated from me you shan’t free yourself of mewhile you’re in me I’ll keep repeating you
it is enough to notice it for it to take possession. And it pays
by remaining
in the inadvertent host
complementary exchange:
a tree within us and us within the tree
entrusted to endure
multiplied leaf by leaves
and divided by the word
and separated by the flesh
we find ‘it’
in what eyes perceive
no distance will keep us distant while
you’re inside me
at the point the place
where I shan’t find you
there in the final scattering
divisible multipliant
I shall be whole
© 1999, Barbara Plebanek and Tony Howard
From: Stany Nieoczywistoœci
From: Stany Nieoczywistoœci
psalm
liberated from me you shan’t free yourself of mewhile you’re in me I’ll keep repeating you
it is enough to notice it for it to take possession. And it pays
by remaining
in the inadvertent host
complementary exchange:
a tree within us and us within the tree
entrusted to endure
multiplied leaf by leaves
and divided by the word
and separated by the flesh
we find ‘it’
in what eyes perceive
no distance will keep us distant while
you’re inside me
at the point the place
where I shan’t find you
there in the final scattering
divisible multipliant
I shall be whole
© 1999, Barbara Plebanek and Tony Howard
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