Poetry Corner: “The End and the Beginning”
"The End and the Beginning": by Wisława Szymborska After every war someone has to clean up. Things won't straighten themselves up, after all. Someone has to push the rubble to the side of the road, so the corpse-filled wagons can pass. Someone has to get mired in scum and ashes, sofa springs, splintered glass, and bloody rags. Well-known in her native Poland, Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) received international recognition when she won [...]