Three Poems by Grzegorz Wróblewski

TATAMI IN KYOTO
Become a mineral
and you will become an ant.
And that’s it. And never anything
more.

AT THE GREAT LORD OF SHINGON
Don’t feel
and only then
everything until the end
you will feel it.

LOVE
Look at the sky
or in yourself
or into stone
or for nothing
don’t look.

(Grzegorz Wróblewski was born in 1962 in Gdańsk and grew up in Warsaw, Poland. Currently he has been living in Copenhagen, Denmark . English translations of his work are available in Our Flying Objects (trans. Joel Leonard Katz, Rod Mengham, Malcolm Sinclair, Adam Zdrodowski, Equipage, 2007), A Marzipan Factory (trans. Adam Zdrodowski, Otoliths,
2010), Kopenhaga (trans. Piotr Gwiazda, Zephyr Press, 2013), Let’s Go Back to the Mainland (trans. Agnieszka Pokojska, Červená Barva Press, 2014), Zero Visibility (trans. Piotr Gwiazda, Phoneme Media, 2017), Dear Beloved Humans (trans. Piotr Gwiazda, Lavender/Dialogos Books, 2023) Asemic writing book Shanty Town (Post-Asemic Press, 2022).