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| My Shadow by Tom Sullivan |
Myself and My Person
BY ANNA SWIR
Translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan
There are moments
when I feel more clearly than ever
that I am in the company
of my own person.
This comforts and reassures me,
this heartens me,
just as my tridimensional body
is heartened by my own authentic shadow.
There are moments
when I really feel more clearly than ever
that I am in the company
of my own person.
I stop
at a street corner to turn left
and I wonder what would happen
if my own person walked to the right.
Until now that has not happened
but it does not settle the question.
Talking to My Body (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1996)
Talking to My Body (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1996)
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