Came across this poem, which felt right and true, and decided to decorate it:
Late Summer by Anna Kamienska
I’ll lock myself nowin a cell of prickly hayto think through all from the beginning*A leaf a root an ant a harethe sea a cloud a rock*I’ll think about them
as a sinner thinks
about his sins*I’ll ask myself
whether I regret very much
not belonging to a land of green*I’ll question how many times
I didn’t ask roots which way to go*
I’ll repent before water a cloud
a birch-tree*
I’ll wash their feet
and dress their wounds*
Why can’t I be reconciled
to green rustling life
and sleep among mortal dreams*
Leaf
teach me to fall
on the indifferent earth
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(click on each for larger view, captions)
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I’ll lock myself now / in a cell of prickly hay / to think through all from the beginning
a leaf
Jekyll island, GA, Dec 2013
Tower Hill, MA, July 2008
ME, Oct 2007
NH, Oct 2013
NH, Nov 2013
NH, Oct 2013
pine, NH, Sept 2010
a root
an ant
a hare
the sea
a cloud
Jekyll Island, GA, Sept 2014
Reid State Park, Georgetown, ME, May 2007
Jekyll Island, GA, Sept 2013
Kezar Lake, NH, Feb 2013
Popham Beach, ME, April 2007
Jekyll Island, GA, Sept. 2008
Jekyll Island, GA, Sept 2013
Eastern Shore, MD, Jan 2010
Jekyll Island, GA, Sept 2014
a rock
Foss Beach, NH, Feb 2011
New London, NH, Oct 2013
Reid State Park, Georgetown, ME, May 2007
I’ll think about them / as a sinner thinks / about his sins
Pine Point, ME, June 2014
Foss Beach, NH, Feb. 2011
I’ll ask myself / whether I regret very much / not belonging to a land of green
I’ll question how many times / I didn’t ask roots which way to go
St Andrews, Jekyll island, GA, Sept 2014
I’ll repent before water
a cloud
a birch-tree
I’ll wash their feet / and dress their wounds
Why can’t I be reconciled / to green rustling life / and sleep among mortal dreams
Leaf / teach me to fall / on the indifferent earth
Thank you Molly! I loved reading the poem first and then seeing it decorated with the visuals…