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Letter From a Reader

Too much about death,
too many shadows.
Write about an average day,
the yearning for order.
Take the school bell
as your model
of moderation,
even scholarship.
Too much death,
too much
dark radiance.
Take a look,
crowds packed
in cramped stadiums
sing songs of hatred.
Too much music,
too little harmony, peace,
reason.
Write about those moments
when friendship’s footbridges
seem more enduring
than despair.
Write about love,
long evenings,
the dawn,
the trees,
about the endless patience
of the light.
Translated by Clare Cavanagh This poem appeared in Without End: New and Selected Poems by Adam Zagajewski, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

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