abundance

"I DON’T TRUST THE TRUTH OF MEMORIES
BECAUSE WHAT LEAVES US
DEPARTS FOREVER
THERE’S ONLY ONE CURRENT OF THIS SACRED RIVER
BUT I STILL WANT TO REMAIN FAITHFUL
TO MY FIRST ASTONISHMENTS
TO RECOGNIZE AS WISDOM THE CHILD’S WONDER
AND TO CARRY IN MYSELF UNTIL THE END A PATH
IN THE WOODS OF MY CHILDHOOD
DAPPLED WITH PATCHES OF SUNLIGHT
TO SEARCH FOR IT EVERYWHERE
IN MUSEUMS IN THE SHADE OF CHURCHES
THIS PATH ON WHICH I RAN UNAWARE
A SIX-YEAR OLD
TOWARD MY PRIMARY MYSTERIOUS ALONENESS"

~ Anna Kamieńska, from “A Path in the Woods,“Astonishments: Selected Poems of Anna Kamieńska, eds & trans. Grazyna Drabik and David Curzon (Paraclete Press, 2007)

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abundance

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13.9.18

I don't trust....

6.3.18

I will never....

23.2.18

Do not...

"DO NOT MOCK A PAIN THAT YOU HAVEN’T ENDURED."

20.2.18

What keeps....

"WHAT KEEPS MY HEART AWAKE IS COLORFUL SILENCE."

I think...

"I THINK GENTLENESS IS ONE OF THE MOST DISARMINGLY AND CAPTIVATINGLY ATTRACTIVE QUALITIES THERE ARE."

18.2.18

Somewhere...

"SOMEWHERE BETWEEN SOUND AND SILENCE"

17.2.18

It wasn't....

"IT WASN’T MY DAY. MY WEEK. MY MONTH. MY YEAR. MY LIFE. GOD DAMN IT."

15.2.18

A year...

"STILL, AS THAT YEAR WENT ON, I HAD TROUBLE TRUSTING THAT THINGS WERE REALLY GETTING BETTER."

31.5.17

I can have....

"I CAN HAVE PEACE OF MIND ONLY WHEN I FORGIVE RATHER THAN JUDGE."

30.5.17

in the end...

"IN THE END I SUCCEEDED. BUT, THE STRUGGLE IS NOT YET OVER."