I open the mystical Book of Light.
Jerusalem blossoms like the eternal garden.
God goes back to the beginning.
Words escape from the exile
free as birds.
The sky is open
for everyone.
Anna Banasiak is a poet and literary critic from Lodz, Poland. She studied Polish philology and culture studies at the University of Warsaw. She is the winner of poetry competitions in Berlin, London and Bratislava. Her poems have appeared online via New York, London, Surrey, Australia, Canada, India and South Africa.