Niosłam dwa ziemniaki podeszła kobieta

DWA ZIEMNIAKI
Niosłam dwa ziemniaki
podeszła kobieta.
Chciała kupić dwa ziemniaki
miała dzieci.
Nie dałam jej dwu ziemniaków
schowałam dwa ziemniaki.
Miałam matkę.
TWO POTATOES
I carried two potatoes
a woman came up to me.
She wanted to buy two potatoes
she had two children.
I didn’t give her two potatoes
I hid two potatoes.
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I had a mother.
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Poet Anna Świrszczyńska is a significant Polish poet and playwright of the postwar period. Translator Piotr Florczyk is a poet, essayist, and translator of six volumes of Polish poetry.
Artist Kate Baird is a painter and works as teaching artist with Placeworks, an arts outreach program for rural schools. Poem from Building the Barricade (Tavern Books, 2016).