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The Bicycle by Jerzy Harasymowicz trans. From Polish by Edmund Ordon

The Bicycle by Jerzy Harasymowicz trans. From Polish by Edmund Ordon. once forgotten by tourists a bicycle joined a herd of mountain goats. with its splendidly turned silver horns it became their leader with its bell it warned them of danger. with them it partook in romps

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The Bicycle by Jerzy Harasymowicz trans. From Polish by Edmund Ordon

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  1. The Bicycleby JerzyHarasymowicztrans. From Polish by Edmund Ordon

  2. once forgotten by tourists a bicycle joined a herd of mountain goats

  3. with its splendidly turned silver horns it became their leader with its bell it warned them of danger

  4. with them it partook in romps on the snow covered glade the bicycle gazed from above on people walking; with the goats

  5. it fought over a goat, with a bearded buck

  6. it reared up at eagles enraged on its back wheel

  7. it was happy though it never nibbled at grass or drank from a stream

  8. until once a poacher shot it tempted by the silver trophy of its horns

  9. and then above the Tatras was seen against the sparkling January sky

  10. the angel of death erect slowly riding to heaven holding the bicycle’s dead horns.

  11. http://gritinthegears.blogspot.com/2007/11/goats-and-bicycles.html blog poem response to the bicycle http://throughthegate09.blogspot.com/2011/11/poem-that-started-it-all_28.html comments on poet’s style and content…wonder, weird fantasy tales

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