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Burgi Zenhaeusern
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Loves books. Writes poems. She/her For everything else: linktr.ee/burgitree
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"so strange, like old truths echoing in prayers." Wislawa Szymborska (sometime in the 1940ies); the opening poem in Map (Collected and Last Poems) Feeling this acutely these days. #paradigmShift#poetry

Once we had the world backwards and forwards: --it was so small it fit in two clasped hands, so simple that a smile did to describe it, so common, like old truths echoing in prayers. History didn't greet us with triumphal fanfares: --it flung dirty sand into our eyes. Ahead of us lay long roads leading nowhere, poisoned wells and bitter bread. Our wartime loot is knowledge of the world, --it is so large it fits in two clasped hands, so hard that a smile does to describe it, so strange, like old truths echoing in prayers.
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Loves books. Writes poems. She/her For everything else: linktr.ee/burgitree
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