Typed with One Finger, and: We, Starfish

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Typed with One Finger, and: We, Starfish Miron Białoszewski (bio) Typed with One Finger On the bottoms of potsrunlizards of old hands. Cornices of hair bunsbelow wardrobe moldings. Bottles of windowsstopped with corks of faces. Stonespeerporouslyfrom various wrinklesabove a violet chin. Within the earth—sepulchral ammonites. Bloodstream rosestwine up stairsup to a roof,on antennae of Gothic. Fliescircle lamp-horizonsand those who into distant vistasdepartfade, autumnal,into switches, sketched. [End Page 54] We, Starfish It’s not alonethe fallen hair. The place abandonedoften aches. We multiplyseveredby longings. — We are starfish. — Fenced off from nothing.Disastered. [End Page 55] Miron Białoszewski Miron Białoszewski (1922–1983), born in Warsaw, clandestinely studied linguistics during World War II under the Nazi occupation, and was deported to a labor camp in Germany. A poet, prose writer, playwright, and filmmaker, he stretches the boundaries of language and linguistic conventions, focusing on the material world as a starting point for wider philosophical explorations. In addition to poetry, fiction, and plays, Białoszewski is the author of Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising, a landmark account of the tragic 1944 Polish uprising against the German occupation. Copyright © 2019 Middlebury College Publications