“I am too close for him to dream of me.
I don't flutter over him, don't flee him
beneath the roots of trees. I am too close.
The caught fish doesn't sing with my voice.
The ring doesn't roll from my finger.
I am too close.”

—  Wisława Szymborska

"I Am Too Close..."
Poems New and Collected (1998), Salt (1962)

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