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The Other World

I don't believe in the other world But I don't believe in this one either unless it's pierced by light

I believe in a woman's body hit by a car in the street

I believe in bodies stopped short in mid-rush mid-gesture mid-pushas if what they'd been waiting for so long were just about to beginas if at any minute a meaning would lift its index finger up

I believe in the blind eye the deaf ear the crippled leg the crow's foot the cheek's red flame

I believe in bodies lyingin sleep's deep trustI believe in age's patiencein unborn frailty

I believe in the one hair that a dead man left on his brown beret

I believe in a brightness miraculously increased to shine on all things

Even on the beetle that lies wriggling on its back helpless as a pup

I believe that rain stitches heaven and earth together and that angels descend in this rain visiblylike winged frogs

I don't believe in this world emptyas a railroad station at dawn when all the trains have left for the beyond

The world is oneespecially when it wakens in the dew and the Lord takes a stroll among the foliageof human and animal dreams

~ Kamienska ~

(Two Darknesses, trans. by T. P. Krzeszowski and D. Graham)

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