Street Songs
Translated from the Polish by Andrew Gorski
I had something to say
The doors were thrown wide open
In my sleep I laughed out loud and shouted
and all the words lapsed into dream.
I had something to take note of
that no one else could see
I walked out onto the street and looked
Stumbled and fell into an open dream.
I walked along holding a child’s hand
and not wanting to talk with him in verse
And waking I still remembered
how much I didn’t want to pull him into my dream.
Osiris 27, 1988
Osiris Poetry 