being hopelessly uncertain / and helplessly hopeful
— Anna Kamieńska, from "A Prayer that Will be Answered" in "Astonishments: Selected Poems of Anna Kamieńska". Trans: Grażyna Drabik and David Curzon. (Paraclete, 2007) (via Read a Little Poetry)
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being hopelessly uncertain / and helplessly hopeful
— Anna Kamieńska, from "A Prayer that Will be Answered" in "Astonishments: Selected Poems of Anna Kamieńska". Trans: Grażyna Drabik and David Curzon. (Paraclete, 2007) (via Read a Little Poetry)

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I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself.
Anna Kamienska - from Astonishments: Selected Poems
setting sun and full moon sharing the sky (c) Mike Mezeul II, May 6, 2020
The ways of creating that are a prayer. The ways of being that are a prayer.
Anna Kamieńska, from The Notebook (1973), in Astonishments trans. Grażyna Drabik and David Curzon
Yes, even when I don’t believe— there is a place in me inaccessible to unbelief, a patch of wild grace, a stubborn preserve, impenetrable, pain untouched by the sleeping body, music that builds its nest in silence.
Anna Kamienska, from “Lack of Faith” featured in Astonishments: Selected Poems of Anna Kamienska.

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...with her hand she still presses so tenaciously her little heart full of unlived tenderness
Anna Kamienska, from Astonishments: Selected Poems of Anna Kamienska; “Thirteen-Year-Old”
…even when I don’t believe / there is a place in me / inaccessible to unbelief / a patch of wild grace
Anna Kamienska, from Astonishments: Selected Poems of Anna Kamienska; “Lack of Faith”