Szymborska: in memoriam

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Clouds

I’d have to be really quick
to describe clouds -
a split second’s enough
for them to start being something else.

Their trademark:
they don’t repeat a single
shape, shade, pose, arrangement.

Let people exist if they want,
and then die, one after another:
clouds simply don't care
what they're up to
down there.

Sadly, the world lost Polish poet and 1996 Nobel Prize Winner
Wisława Szymborska one week ago today: 1 February 2012.
She "died peacefully" in her sleep at 88 years of age.  

Here's more of her poetry I posted last fall: seen from above.

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