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Tuesday, April 05, 2005

"Love at First Sight"
by Wislawa Szymborska
[Orginal Version]

THEY'RE BOTH CONVINCED
that a sudden passion joined them.
Such certainty is beautiful,
but uncertainty is more beautiful still

Since they'd never met before, they're sure
that there'd been nothing between them.
But what's the word from the streets, staircases, hallways—
perhaps they've passed each other a million times?

I want to ask themif they don't remember—
a moment face to face
in some revolving door?
perhaps a "sorry" muttered in a crowd?
a curt "wrong number" caught in the receiver?
but I know the answer.
No, they don't remember

They'd be amazed to hear
that Chance has been toying with them
now for years.
Not quite ready yet
to become their Destiny,
it pushed them close,
drove them apart,
it barred their path,
stifling a laugh,
and then leaped aside.

There were signs and signals,
even if they couldn't read them yet.
Perhaps three years agoor just last Tuesday
a certain leaf fluttered
from one shoulder to another?
Something was dropped and then picked up.
Who knows, maybe the ball that vanished
into childhood's thicket?

There were doorknobs and doorbells
where one touch had covered another beforehand.
Suitcases checked and standing side by side.
One night, perhaps, the same dream,grown hazy by morning.
Every beginningis only a sequel, after all,
and the book of events
is always open halfway through.

_______________________________________________________________
from View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems, translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh. Published by and copyright © 1995 by Harcourt Brace & Company. Love at First Sight was originally published in 1993 in The End and the Beginning.


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