#G.Drabik

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

OWL PARADE :: [Chantelle Rytter]

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Funny

What's it like to be a human the bird asked

I myself don't know it's being held prisoner by your skin while reaching infinity being a captive of your scrap of time while touching eternity being hopelessly uncertain and helplessly hopeful being a needle of frost and a handful of heat breathing in the air and choking wordlessly it's being on fire with a nest made of ashes eating bread while filling up on hunger it's dying without love it's loving through death

That's funny said the bird and flew effortlessly up into the air

~ Anna Kamienska ~ (Astonishments: Selected Poems of Anna Kamienska, ed. and trans. by D. Curzon and G. Drabik) Echoes of Panhala