Ein literarischer Winterball

And now you stand like a lonely tree
open to all the winds and birds

And now you shine like a lake
and whether you want to or not
you reflect the sky

—Anna Kamienska, from “On a Sonnet by Leah Goldberg” in Astonishments, trans. Curzon and Drabik (via proustitute)

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