Tadeusz Dąbrowski – (b. 1979) Poet, essayist, critic. Editor of the literary bimonthly Topos. He has been published in many journals in Poland (among others: Tygodnik Powszechny, Polityka, Rzeczpospolita, Twórczość, Odra, Zeszyty Literackie, Res Publica Nowa, Kresy) and abroad (Boston Review, Agni, American Poetry Review, Tin House, Harvard Review, Crazyhorse, Poetry Daily, Guernica, Poetry Review, Poetry London, The Reader, Shearsman, Poetry Ireland, Poetry Wales, Seam, Other Poetry, Salzburg Poetry Review, Akzente, Sprache im technischen Zeitalter, EDIT, Ostragehege, manuskripte, Lichtungen).
For years I've been cheating myself. It's a very tiring business,
practising self-deception. Try one day
to play a one-man lightning game of chess to win
...
Doom has come to you,
you who dwell in the land.
Ezekiel 7:7
Automobiles flow like droplets down the string of the highway,
...
The living will not understand the dead the dead will understand
the living and his lack of understanding.
The living so firmly doesn't believe in heaven that if
he were offered the choice of eternally sitting in an armchair
...
And the whole day wasted, thrown away
on thinking what else could be done here
in order to do nothing.
...
God has not retired - as Simone Weil
would have it - a huge distance away, but He's
right here, so close that I can feel His
...