Late Feast
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?
– Adam Zagajewski –
Translated from the Polish
by Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C.K. Williams
Photo by Jill Griffin on Pinterest
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