The article offers poetry criticism of the poems of Polish poet Tomasz Rózycki. It examines the themes of Rózycki's childhood home of Opole, Poland in the poem "Scorched Maps," "Twelve Stations," and "The Forgotten Keys." The author also compares and contrasts the poems of Rózycki to Polish poets such as Czeslaw Milosz and Tadeusz Rózewicz.