So long as that woman from the Rijksmuseum
translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh,
in painted quiet and concentration
keeps pouring milk day after day
from the pitcher to the bowl
the World hasn’t earned
the world’s end.
Stanislaw Baranczak
From NYRB
Saturday, August 7, 2010
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