Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Anna Swir / A Woman Writer Does Laundry






A Woman Writer Does Laundry
by Anna Swir
Translated by Czeslaw Milosz & Leonard Nathan


Enough typing.
Today I am doing laundry
in the old style.
I wash, I wash, rinse, wring
as did my grandmothers and great-grandmothers.
Relaxation.

Doing laundry is healthful and useful
like a washed shirt. Writing
is suspect.
Like three interrogation marks
typed on a page.



Talking to My Body
Copper Canyon Press, 1996


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