By Lukasz Jarosz, from The Nature of Things, a collection of his poems that will be published this month by Liberodiscrivere. Jarosz is the author of several books of poems, including Pelna krew (Full Blood), which won the Wislawa Szymborska Award in 2012. Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.

Yes, I used to think in pictures. But I wanted
the picture to say more — a woman at the window
behind her lace curtains, a pensive man watching
the piglets feasting on last year’s apples by the sty.
Kalina…