Acclimatization

Anna Frajlich

1973

I forget meticulously
I forget scrupulously
  my native landscape
  my daily landscape
I forget the ragged
I forget the billowy
  clouds in a sky
  clouds over a town
I forget to the end
I forget them nonstop
  —faces cloaked in the dusk
  behind windows of trains.

Translated by
Regina
Grol
.
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Creator Bio

Anna Frajlich

b. 1942

Born in Kyrgyzstan and raised in Szczecin, Poland, poet and scholar Anna Frajlich (also Frajlich-Zajac) immigrated in 1969 to New York, where she taught Polish language and literature at Columbia University until 2016. She has published poetry as well as essays and scholarly articles in English, Polish, and French. She was awarded the Knight Cross of the Order of Merit by the president of Poland in 2002 and in 2008 received the honorary title of ambassador of Szczecin.

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