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A horse and cart went past.
I see. I believe in them.

They grow dark.

The horse and cart went past.
But the horse had a horse.
The cart had a cart.

They led their own selves
large from shadows
along the acacias.

And now it’s hard for me to believe
in the horse and cart.

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Miron Białoszewski

Miron Białoszewski (1922–1983) was an acclaimed Polish poet, playwright, and prose writer, a volume of whose work will be published in English in 2025.

Clare Cavanagh

Clare Cavanagh is the Frances Hooper Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern. She received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature for her translations of Polish poetry. (March 2024)

Michał Rusinek

Michał Rusinek is a translator and writer and the Director of the Wisława Szymborska Foundation. He teaches at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. (March 2024)

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