KAMIL ZASZKOWSKI

Splinters of sunlight

The city slowly frees itself from the grip

of the rustling discipline of tightly

fastened raincoats.

Pavements frosted by rain

slither like snakes—rough serpents

covered in silver mould

seem t seethe in the wind

fermented by the cold and glitter in the sun.

Again we can walk, carrying at the zenith

of scents: a damp greyness and green

through the sticky silence of the sun

with the wet lament of folding umbrellas.

A step from breathlessness so long as we go

forward.

A hair's breadth from a new hairstyle

unless you prefer to split hairs.

One more word and a decent poem

will be born.

Kamil Zaszkowski, born in 1978 in Poland, currently living in the UK. He has published in his native language in Polish Literary Magazines and Newspapers and in the English-language magazine Chainmail Poetry. He is the author of three volumes of poetry and a book of prose.

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