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Reading a Map in an Unknown Foreign Language 

In this dream,

I unfold other maps

between petulant winds.


In this place, I am known,

but not by this name,

not in this direction.


I have lost my way.

It was a mistake

to come here today.


Ignorance always wins,

because it does not know

it lost long ago.


Tracing a vein in my arm,

I find a way home.

(January 17, 2026)