A Path in the Woods by Anna Kamieńska
I don’t trust the truth of memoriesbecause what leaves usdeparts foreverThere’s only one current of this sacred riverbut I still want to remain faithfulto my first astonishmentsto recognize as wisdom the child’s wonderand to carry in myself until the end a pathin the woods of my childhooddappled with patches of sunlightto search for it everywherein museums in the shade of churchesthis path on which I ran unawarea six-year oldtoward my primary mysterious aloneness
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