From the French.
Because we stay there so often
during summer vacations
my grandparents’ house
—the one they built when they retired
is our second home
on the way from childhood to adolescence
(and almost the first in a way
since the apartment above the schoolhouse
seemed to be just an annex of the classrooms)
not the hearth of origin
where all is spontaneously absorbed assimilated
but the one where the child confronting freedom
tries her hand at shaping her own universe
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