To Go Ahead
Written by Danuta Bartosz
Translated from Polish by the poet
Narrated by Bill Wolak
Poland
To untie the ropes
to pull the anchor
to leave the harbor of stagnation
To catch the wind in the sails
to wander to dream to discover
what is still undiscovered
To be amazed by what we haven’t been amazed by
To memorize what still hasn’t happened
To check why without you the world
isn’t music
the branches of the tree are humming
the same way
Danuta Bartosz was born in Kiev and graduated from the University of Poznań with a degree in Law. Poet, journalist, and publisher of 11 bilingual anthologies, she is Honorary President of the Greater Poland Branch of the Polish Writers’ Union.