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