Vermeer

August 19, 2010

Wisława Szymborska, translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh and Stanisław Barańczak

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So long as that woman from the Rijksmuseum
in painted quiet and concentration
keeps pouring milk day after day
from the pitcher to the bowl
the World hasn’t earned
the world’s end.

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