Zirocco

Warsaw and The End

Posted by Zirocco | 11th July 2008

Stare Miasto. Remember I didn't take any of these. But trust me I was there.

I was laying in the back row of the nave in St. Anne's church at about 7:15 AM on Wednesday morning. Not minutes after I arrived I got out of my taxi it began to rain. Not tolerable summer rain. Blustery Polish rain. I didn't have an umbrella, anywhere to buy one, or anywhere to go. Things in Old Town don't pick up until around 1. So I tuckered down the side of the road and slid into the first church I passed, which happened to be one of the most beautiful I've ever seen. I dropped my bag in the empty nave and sat in the corner by the tomb of a 15th century Polish knight. In the gallery above/behind me they were tuning the organ, meditatively climbing the deeply resonant notes, so thick that the whole room was wet with sound. The gold leaf was trembling.
This is how I arrived in Warsaw.

They let me catnap in St. Anne's for an hour or

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