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Jerzy Jarniewicz

Jerzy Jarniewicz


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The Callum Macdonald Memorial Award

Prize winners for the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award, now in its eighth year, were announced last night at the National Library of Scotland, Causewayside Building.


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Spring programme, including…

Reading and writing workshops, poetry from Poland, Germany, New Zealand, reading aloud...

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Wszystkie drogi

Powiedz, skądigdzie jesteśmy? Wydłużone rzęsy
siedzącej naprzeciwko mnie szatynki wyznaczają
nasze współrzędne. Gastronomia
wyryta na widelczyku, mdlący zapach ceraty
w granatowe rybki i równoważący
ten mocno niestabilny układ
papierek po dropsach z Goplany. W gardle
rozpanoszył się mdły smak akronu. Na zawsze?
Tych lat nie odda nikt (albo jakiś inny
Szlagwort z Opola). Wyprowadź mnie stąd,
z błędu zmęczonego oka. Na samym dnie
pękają naczyńka, wzrok krwawi, nie chce rozstąpic się
Morze Czerwone. Skwar i tony pyłków w powietrzu.
Ten lokal Rzym się nazywa. Ktoś przyjdzie
i poukłada?

All Roads

Where have we arrived? And where from? The elongated
eyelashes of the dark blonde opposite plot
our coordinates. Gastronomia
engraved on the dessert fork, the nauseating whiff of the plastic
tablecloth in navy blue fish and the Goplana
sweet wrapper to balance
this rickety arrangement. The bland Akron
cough drops hold sway in my throat. For ever?
Those years will not return (or yet another
hit of the song contest in Opole). Deliver me from this place,
from the error of the weary eye. At the bottom
blood vessels burst, sight bleeds, the Red Sea
refuses to part. Scorching heat, tons of pollen in the air.
This inn is called Rome. Somebody should come
and rearrange it?

Jerzy Jarniewicz


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