I’m going to put down the white table cloth
spill across snow the infrared (outside of the range of red light)
petals of supermarket roses petals in foil unrecognisable to my eyes*
they will feel the cold and the foil and the snow in the lowest red spectrum wavelength
this redness will blanket Ukraine all the dogs shot in the head in preparing for the Euro
howling will leave behind traces of canine suffering the snow scarlet
(dogs do not have their crucified Christ)
the murdered dogs will cover me their white flesh and bone woman in tongues
though they are dead they will lick me dry lick until I begin to bleed
and will remove the white sheet of snow from the dogs
I will sprinkle flour made from their bones on the table once covered
with that cloth I will brush my teeth before sleep
toothpaste has dead dogs in it too
translated by Marek Kazmierski
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Genowefa Jakubowska-Fijałkowska born 1946 in Mikolowo. Author of five volumes of poetry – in 2010, she published the collection “and then your fever will pass“. . Press debut in 1972 in “Odra”. Between 1970-80 she published her work in leading literary Polish periodicals. 1994 saw the publication of her first volume of poetry LIFE SENTENCE. 1994-2006 sees publications in, among others, “Akcent”, “Fraza”, “Magazyn Kulturalny”, “Arkusz”, “Opcje”, “Arkadie”, “Topos”, “Śląsk”, “Twórczość”, “Kwartalnik Artystyczny”, “Zeszyty Literackie” and on-line. Radio Katowice has adapted her poems for a series of radio plays. In 2006 receives the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage grant. Still residing in Mikolowo.
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| Genowefa Jakubowska-Fijałkowska Ur. 1946 r. w Mikołowie. Autorka pięciu tomików wierszy. W 2010 r. wydała wybór wierszy “i wtedy minie twoja gorączka”. Debiut prasowy w 1972 r. w “Odrze”. W latach 1970-1980 publikowała wiersze i opowiadania, między innymi w “Tygodniku Kulturalnym”, “Życiu Literackim”, “Faktach”, “Regionach”. W roku 1994 debiut książkowy , tomik wierszy DOŻYWOCIE. W latach 1994-2006 publikuje wiersze między innymi w “Akcencie”, “Frazie”, “Magazynie Kulturalnym”, “Arkuszu”, “Opcjach”, “Arkadii”, “Toposie”, “Śląsku”, “Twórczości”, “Kwartalniku Artystycznym”, “Zeszytach Literackich” i na www. Na podstawie wierszy zrealizowano w Radio Katowice pięć słuchowisk poetyckich. Stypendystka Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego w 2006 r. Mieszka w Mikołowie. |
