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In fluent silence

Published on 22/12/2025 by Maciej ModzelewskiLeave a comment

I have a cheesecake promised
five hundred miles away from here.
It’s not even a blown kiss—a jest, perhaps,
with sunglasses on (that’s London, after all),
or a prolegomenon to a fable
in fluent silence.


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Categories English poetry, poetry•Tags ambiguity, communication, distance, gesture, intimacy, lightness, London, poem, promise, restraint, silence

The banks

Published on 03/06/2025 by Maciej ModzelewskiLeave a comment

I live by the river yet never walk its banks.
Not that they’d miss me particularly—
after all, I would just be another pair of soles
trampling on their peace between the tides.


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Categories English poetry, poetry•Tags environmental awareness, nature, personification, poem, proximity, restraint, river, self-reflection, solitude, tides, wordplay
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