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The poet evokes how stopping at a station, while on a train, recalls times spent with his mother on trains, with the two of them playing Patience. The poem expresses his unrealisable longing for return to Poland and reunion with his mother.
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English translation of the title: Mother
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English translation of first line: Stars in the train window. A whistle pierces the airless silence.
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