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BOULEVARD Nos. 65 & 66, 2007
Published by Saint Louis University, US

    Krakow-Warsaw West

I feel the greatest longing at train stations
in angular wating rooms
on dim platforms
and when the train pulls out and passes the backs of houses
the city's cesspool the other side of walls
the pitch-black yards the rickety fences
those unfulfilled garden plots.

I long for places and people left behind
for the way they could have been for me but are for others
I even long for those I have never met
who still belong irrevocably
to my past.