New Month, New Poet

Anna Kamienska (1920-1986) was a Polish poet and one I had not heard of. I recently read this poem of her's and really like it:

A Path In The Woods

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

Six-year-old me in the woods near my Grandmother Lynam's house (in background). A perfect place to run and play.