A narrated version of my piece, “Open.”

It’s a poem I wrote not long after moving to Saint Petersburg—before I fully understood just how much I needed a new beginning.Let me correct that: I knew I needed a new beginning.I just wasn’t ready to let go of the life I’d built…and I was going through the motions of a new beginning, while part of me was still waiting for the old story to change its ending.

On the surface, it’s a poem about settling in.But beneath that? It’s about thirst. Longing.And that quiet, unspoken hope that what I was really searching for might still find me.

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