“I wanted the past to go away,
I wanted to leave it, like another country;
I wanted my life to close, and open
like a hinge, like a wing,
like the part of the song
where it falls down over the rocks:
an explosion, a discovery;
I wanted to hurry into the work of my life;…”

~Mary Oliver

Artist~Svetlana Berdnik
Text & image source: Moonlight Serenade https://web.facebook.com/Moonlight-Serenade-228504310532112/