A Note (Wislawa Szymbarska)

Wednesday in anticipation


posted by Lissa mcKinley on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 Edit





Almost at the one week mark and still feel my hair firmly attached to my skull! My sister is coming in late tonight and she will be there with me tomorrow and then we are running off to take Will to Denison for a visit with the lacrosse coach. For today, a little Wislawa Szymbarska:



A Note



Life is the only way

to get covered in leaves,

catch your breath on the sand,

rise on wings;



to be a dog,

or stroke its warm fur;



to tell pain

from everything it's not;



to squeeze inside events,

dawdle in views,

to seek the least of all possible mistakes.



An extraordinary chance

to remember for a moment

a conversation held

with the lamp switched off;



and if only once

to stumble upon a stone,

end up soaked in one downpour or another,



mislay your keys in the grass;

and to follow a spark on the wind with your eyes;

and to keep on not knowing

something important.



~ Wislawa Szymborska