In June 1986

World Literature Today, May-August, 2004 by Marcin Swietlicki

in June 1986

   I often go past Majdanek.
   It's hot, people are suntanning
   on the lawn by the fence, some climb over
   the fence, and there--inside-
   they feel even
   safer.

MARCIN SWIETLICKI (b. 1961) was one of the key poets featured in Przyszli barbarzyncy, the anthology of "barbarian" poems published in Krakow in 1991. His other published works include Zimne kraje (1992, 1995), Piesni profana (1998), Czynny do odwolania (2001), and Nieczynny (2003).