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Poetry

Indiscretion

By Ewa Lipska
Translated from Polish by Robin Davidson & Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska

Had she busied herself in time
with the systematic counting
of ship screws
it would not have come to this—
indecent acts of poetry.

Translation of “Niedyskrecja.” Copyright by Ewa Lipska. By arrangement with the author. Translation copyright 2007 by Robin Davidson and Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska. All rights reserved.

English

Had she busied herself in time
with the systematic counting
of ship screws
it would not have come to this—
indecent acts of poetry.

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