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Monday, February 21, 2011

Czeslaw Milosz

So Little

I said so little.
Days were short.

Short days.

Short nights.
Short years.

I said so little.

I couldn't keep up.

My heart grew weary

From joy,
Despair,
Ardor,
Hope.

The jaws of Leviathan

Were closing upon me.

Naked, I lay on the shore
s
Of desert islands.

The white whale of the world

Hauled me down to its pit.

And now I don't know

What in all that was real