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Monday, 12 January 2026

Assimilation - Eeva-Liisa Manner

I will show you a way
that I have travelled.

If you come
If you come back some day
searching for me

do you see how everything shifts
a little every moment
and becomes less pretentious
and more primitive
(like pictures drawn by children
or early forms of life:
the soul's alphabet)

you will come to a warm region
it is soft and hazy
but then I will no longer be me,
but the forest. 
Eeva-Liisa Manner (1921 - 1995) Finland
Translator not stated
Source: Poemist

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