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How to capture a
year in 100 words?

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Beyond, but myself
like never before.

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Weightlessness, but
cement pain, too.

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As if it weren't home,
but as if it were.

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Life in antonyms.

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I checked the meanings
of words in dictionaries.

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Patria, locus natalis, Heimat.

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Which one is радзіма?

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The sedge warbler closes her
eyes, waiting for the first leaf

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to unfurl.

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A true

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homeland only exists in dreams.

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Ancient scrolls
offer more answers

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than my newsfeed, which I
haven't read for a year now.

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And I talk with moths and
birds more and more often.

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They don't ask any questions.

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They just are.

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And let me simply be where
there is no time and no words.

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This poem was
written as an answer

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to a question I got
from a journalist,

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Belarusian journalist, after the
year of protest started 2020.

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And they made interviews or
asked Belarusian writers,

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and poets, and cultural people
like, how was this year for you?

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So can you describe
how did it go?

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And please in 100 words.

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And that was my answer.

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