She is sixty. She lives
the greatest love of her life.
She walks arm-in-arm with her dear one,
her hair streams in the wind.
Her dear one says:
“You have hair like pearls.”
Her children say:
“Old fool.”
Translated from the Polish by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan
Anonymous Submission
(Anna Swirszczynska)
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