Czeslaw Milosz

Encounter

We were riding through frozen fields in a wagon at dawn.

A red wing rose in the darkness.

 

And suddenly a hare ran across the road.

One of us pointed to it with his hand.

 

That was long ago. Today neighter of them is alive

Not the hare, nor the man who made the gesture.

 

O my love, where are they, where are they going

The flash of a hand, streak of movement, rustle of pebbles.

I ask not out of sorrow, but in wonder.

Czeslaw Milosz

 Czeslaw  Milosz

Czeslaw Milosz most recent books are The Last Poems, On Time Travel, and An Excursion Through the Twenties and Thirties.  The author of dozens of books, Milosz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980. He died in 2004, in Kraków, at the age of 93.


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