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Tuesday, 14 October 2025

Knowledge (for Adam Zagajewski)

The poet writes,

while resting his cheek in his palm:

Knowledge grows slowly like a wisdom tooth.


and I can't help but

smile and smirk,

how slyly and obliquely 

he conceals certain things 

that accompany its nurture.


Knowledge grows slowly,

behind all the spectacle

of the incisors,

in agonizing pain,

like a wisdom tooth.

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