Parading

Down Sally Cow Lane and Elsewhere

In spite of seas of all these dates and fates,

these cells, celestials and coelenterates?
these cells, celestials and coelenterates?
these cells, celestials and coelenterates?
What is it really that made me appear
What is it really that made me appear
neither an inch nor half a globe too far,
neither an inch nor half a globe too far,
neither a minute nor aeons too early?
neither a minute nor aeons too early?
What made me fill myself with me so squarely? —Wisława Szymborska, translated by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh
What made me fill myself with me so squarely?
—Wisława Szymborska, translated by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh

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