Two Poems by Marcin Sendecki (b. 1967)
[Jump]
Night yelps Day burns
Maybe later
Some kind of later whence
Under a heavy eyelid
On a bone-chilled beach
A delicious afternoon
Ready for the road
The wave waits
Yelps Goes deep to the heart
Catches itself sorts itself out
Drags itself whence
Braided bones seaweed
A diesel engine purrs The heart
On jump rope
Translated by Kacper Bartczak and Marit MacArthur
[Yest]
Yesterday a Tuesday Today is
Tuesday outside as in David
Schubert Substrate As
a day count word by
word from an equal
half equals two equals a week from
you a fresh twilight chilled
What’s the difference
On the sun I know not what
to write Carved months
the oculist will tear out
with an eyedropper? Station after station
the winter crossed the river
A tributary swallows on the forum
Translated by Kacper Bartczak and Marit MacArthur
Edited byMarit MacArthur Kacper Bartczak