DPF / Szymborska

For the moments before, when the world was one kind of world, some different from what it became during and after those moments, from poetryfoundation.org.

from Photograph from September 11 / by Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Clare Cavanagh

The photograph halted them in life,
and now keeps them
above the earth toward the earth.

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