"And Even, Even If They Take Away the Stove (My Inexhaustible Ode to Joy)"

I have a stove
similar to a triumphal arch!

They take away my stove
similar to a triumphal arch!!

Give me back my stove
similar to a triumphal arch!!!


They took it away.
What remains is
a grey
naked
hole.

And this is enough for me;
grey naked hole
grey naked hole.
greynakedhole.


-Miron Bialoszewski (tr. Czeslaw Milosz)

["szara naga jama/ szara naga jama/ sza-ra-na-ga-ja-ma/ szaranagajama."]