by the river Wilia, 1999
Convictions, beliefs, opinions,
certainties, principles,
rules and habits have abandoned me.
I woke up naked at the edge of a civilization
which seemed to me comic and incomprehensible.
The vaulted halls of the post-Jesuit academy
where I had taken my classes
would not have been pleased with me.
Though I preserved a few sentences in Latin.
The river flows through [...]