Poetry of the Poles: She Cried That Night, but Not for Him to Hear by Stanislaw Baranczak
To Ania, the only one
She cried that night, but not for him to hear.
In fact her crying wasn’t why he woke.
It was some other sound; that much was clear.And this half-waking shame. No trace of tears
all day, and still at night she works to choke
the sobs; she cries, but not for him to…
Poetry of the Poles: She Cried That Night, but Not for Him to Hear by Stanislaw Baranczak