Warsaw May Day (1982)

58 the minnesota review B. Z. Niditch Warsaw May Day (1982) At the student quarters playing Chopin études while murmuring into a glass bitter with Russian lemon tea politics is again discussed on day-old newspapers as before the war It is spring again with white flowers breathing and chanting trees by the birch precincts the half-light green limbs outside my raining windows Those days of early adolescence my poet's body goes deeply wanting a slice of orange in this exile's bleak dawn watching the tortured trees blacker than the rain of forty years. ...