Thursday, January 30, 2014

ZBIGNIEW HERBERT


No time for much truth
in your criminal era
of totalitarian nights
oppression was open
and shut
in your travel case
kept under your frightful
pale windowsill
there was a playful
flower of Mr. Cogito
you keep watering
in your less than
still life
your poetry saves us
from slaughter.

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