Justyna Bargielska Biography

Yesterday I was walking across the desert,
already in the dark, and something
growled at me quietly. A sensation
not just any, of warmth, M.
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So you've been nowhere? I have,
but not nowhere. It could've been Abkhazia,
the land of the first letters, where men
lay railways at night, upwind, and then
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A girl disappears in the underpass
escaping a man who cries after her.
When my earthly life comes to an end, she thinks,
I'll go to Italy and while away my days
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for Jurek

Do you know how you feel? Some discs
get recorded louder than other discs,
that's just how it is, but can you hear your voice?
I can't hear mine though I can hear yours.

Unless I'm at the bottom of an ocean. But not one of today's
just the one my son talks of sadly, pointing
to the school playground - once
all this was water, those stupid continents
divided it. Then he says, Mama
do you remember when we didn't need eyes?

Little man, how could I forget,
of the thousand adventures of my immortal soul
that was the best.
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Honestly? I think you don't know what yearning is.
Has your daughter ever told you
fifty-three times in a row that the dog's eating your hat?
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