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Liliana, in the dead of night

writing her poems

with gloves on.

I think I'll take off my gloves.

It's freezing in here.

There's a glacier pressing on my heart.

The Polish poet Adam Zagajewski thinks about such material from an opposite direction, from the viewpoint of the mythologized -- how it feels to be part of a nation that others perceive as more like a unicorn than an actual country.

Poems on Poland

I read poems on Poland written

by foreign poets. Germans and Russians

have not only guns, but also

ink, pens, some heart, and a lot

of imagination. Poland in their poems

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