What's the Frequency, Krzysztof?

So far, this series has concerned itself only with North American poets. That changes today. Curious about how commonly the Car appears in the work of poets of other countries, I charged the Research Bureau: Choose four collections of contemporary Polish poetry, and identify how often the word "car" shows up. Why Polish poetry? Joseph Brodsky once advised anyone who really cared about poetry to learn Polish because "the most extraordinary of this century is written in that language." Good enough for me.

In order to give some idea of how frequently "car" occurred, we created a simple index of 7 words, and used the search function in Google Books to compile our results. Here are the words: Horse, Heart, Vodka, Death, Blood, Tears, and, of course, Car (we checked for "automobile," too, just in case).

Okay, let's begin with Zbigniew Herbert: classicist, essayist, dramatist, and creator of Pan Cogito (Mr. Cogito). We used the Selected Poems with translations by Czesław Miłosz and Peter Dale Scott for our experiment. The results are:
Heart 13

Horse 2

Vodka 1

Death 10

Blood 15

Tears 7

Car 0 but Automobile 1

There's only one car reference and it's almost incidental ("automobile parts"). But the poem is great. It also includes the only appearance of "vodka" in the book. From "Five Men" (1957):

I did not learn this today

I knew it before yesterday

so why have I been writing

unimportant poems on flowers

what did the five talk of

the night before the execution

of prophetic dreams

of an escapade in a brothel

of automobile parts

of a sea voyage

of how when he had spades

he ought not to have opened

of how vodka is best

after wine you get a headache

of girls

of fruits

of life

thus one can use in poetry

names of Greek shepherds

one can attempt to catch the colour of morning sky

write of love

and also

once again

in dead earnest

offer to the betrayed world

a rose

(The poster above is from a Polish dramatization of Herbert's letters to friends titled "Beloved Animals.")