Late Feast - Adam Zagajewski
Evening, the edge of the city, a whole day
of void, then all at once
the late feast: the Sanskrit of dusk that speaks
in a glowing tongue of joy.
High overhead flow cigarette firelets
no one is smoking.
Sheets of blazing secrets aflame;
what the serenely fading sky tells
can't be remembered or even described.
So what if Pharaoh's armies pursue you,
when eternity is woven
through days of the week like moss
in the chinks of a cabin?
(Translated from the Polish by Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C.K. Williams)
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