Grzegorz Wroblewski

Birds and Dolphins

 

I’ve returned from an island to an island. Meanwhile, you gorge yourself

on mainland cherries. The sea and the cumuli separate us.

I’m not a bird and you’re not a dolphin.

 

 


Translated by Piotr Gwiazda 

“Birds and Dolphins” was published in Pleiades 35.2 (2015).

 

You can read and listen to the poem in the original Polish here.