Auto Mirror

by Adam Zagajewski

In the rear-view mirror suddenly

I saw the bulk of the Beauvais Cathedral;

great things dwell in small ones

for a moment.

Translated from the Polish by Czesław Miłosz and Robert Hass. From A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry, Orlando, Florida: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1996, page 128. The observation here is also true of every great haiku.