Listening To My Parents Talk In Polish Poem by David Kowalczyk

Listening To My Parents Talk In Polish

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In elementary school,
I would often imagine
translations of the conversations
my parents would hold in Polish,
a tongue they shared with each other,
yet refused to teach their children.


This is what I would
hear them say:


'Our natural state
is to be lost.'


'Learn to be
a stranger in
your own home.'


'What would I give
to become invisible
each morning.'

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David Kowalczyk

David Kowalczyk

Batavia, New York
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