She Does Not Remember

Anna SwirAnna Swir

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She was an evil stepmother.
In her old age she is slowly dying
in an empty hovel.She shudders
like a clutch of burnt paper.
She does not remember that she was evil.
But she knows
that she feels cold.
Anna Swir
About the poet

Anna Swir

1909 - 1984/PolishAnna Swir (Świrszczyńska) was born in Warsaw, Poland, to an artistic though impoverished family. She worked from an early age, supporting herself while she attended university to study medieval Polish literature. In the 1930s she worked for…

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