Daily Poem: No Holds Barred ~ Anna Swir
No Holds Barred
~Anna Swir (Świrszczyńska)
I catch hold of different things:
snow, trees, useless telephone calls,
the tenderness of a child, journeys,
Rosewicz’s poetry,
sleep, apples, morning exercises,
conversations about the salutary properties of vitamins,
exhibits of avant-garde art,
walls on Kosciuszko’s mound, politics,
Penderecki’s music,
natural disasters in foreign countries,
the joy of morality and the joy of immorality,
gossip, a cold shower, fashion magazines from abroad,
learning Italian,
a fondness for dogs, the calendar.
I catch hold of everything
so as not to fall
into the abyss.
