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boarding the plane jeg forstårthe hubbub of the languagenot yet quite familiar my Polish faltershvad hedder det?what’s that? the glottal stop the in-drawn jaand the mental nodof partial recognition shift an accentby one notchand anotherlanguage nudgesitself intothe intonationof this flight Note:An early version of this poem, called ‘Riga – Copenhagen,’ was published as part ofContinue reading “Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese: Kraków – København”