Dictionaries

How many poems sleep in dictionaries
buried like needles in hay
How many poets not yet born
rolled in tight webs of confusion
How many tender confessions there
How many small unkindnesses
How many games

And what unexplored
uninhabited
deserts of silences

(after Anna Kamieńska)

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