Writing
Like Kasia
First published in Unlikely Stories, 12 November 2025
There is no panic in that expression of hers. Her confusion is so much more confident than your own; it demolishes your disbelief, because she simply doesn’t believe in your disbelief.
The artist’s task is to find the way back to themselves through the forest-paths in others; this consistency of destination is what we call style.
I couldn’t really understand / Provisional arrangements […]
When now with you / We gather age / To keep instead.