Krystyna Dąbrowska is a Polish poet, essayist, and translator. She is the author of Ścieżki dźwiękowe (“Soundtracks,” Wydawnictwo a5, 2018), Czas i przesłona (“Time and Aperture,” Znak, 2014), Białe krzesła (“White Chairs,” WBPiCAK, 2012), and Biuro podróży (“Travel Agency,” Zielona Sowa Publishing, 2006).
By Krystyna Dąbrowska
Prove that a person
is / is not
the smithy of his fate.
Topic of an assigned essay
I wrote for my brother.
He did math homework for me,
the smithy of my fate
in the hard sciences.
And I forged for him
a C in Polish class.
A difficult...
By Krystyna Dąbrowska
Until recently the universe was expanding
with new suns, nebulas, constellations,
vibrating waves, the breath of galaxies.
Now it’s contracting to satellite
images depicting Earth:
not even the whole planet, just one country,
not even each region, just one city,
a single street, gray pavement. On it...
