Handout 2: The Same Inside
Anna Swir (1909 - 1984), translated from Polish by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan, from Talking to My Body (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1996).
Walking to your place for a love feast
I saw at a street corner
an old beggar woman
I took her hand,
kissed her delicate cheek,
we talked, she was
the same inside as I am,
from the same kind,
I sensed this instantly
as a dog knows by scent
another dog.
I gave her money,
I could not part from her.
After all, one needs
someone who is close.
And then I no longer knew
why I was walking to your place.
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