Zero Visibility

He moves in front of me.

I can hear words . . .

A prayer? A snake bite?

I enter a fog tunnel.

The guide falls silent.

No way back.

I grope my way forward.

(Life is unbearable.)

Translated by Piotr Gwiazda 

“Zero Visibility” was published in The Nation (June 22-29, 2015).

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