#like poem

Milczałem wiele lat.

Nic się przez to nie stało -

ani dobrego,

ani złego.

~Ryszard Krynicki

Something special
is that even though it took a little while
my parents really came around to me.

Can you tell me again about babies
and how they assess reality
by taking it into their mouths?

How nothing exists until they taste it?

Chessy Normile, from “Like Poem,” Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party (Copper Canyon Press, 2020)