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English translation of first line: On the sea shore
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Epigraph: Z [From] René Magritte
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The poem responds to René Magritte's painting 'Collective Invention', depicting a beached mermaid in reverse, a fish with a woman's legs. The final two lines are:
W oku kobiety-ryby
Jarzy się ziarno galaktyki
[In the eye of the woman-fish
Glows a galactic grain]
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