When I arrived in the city that stretches along the river, I lost sleep. Here, the night is very short and it gets dark after midnight. Instead, there is a lot of sun and light. The calmness of the city and the house seemed to tease me that I couldn't sleep.
Every day I walked along the river, looking for something to help my insomnia. I looked for herbs that grew under the trees. I asked the ducks and titmice. I looked into the cupola of lilys. I looked for rare cat hairs and pieces of their claws.
And the answer came to me from the slow river waters.
On one side of the river, I shut the lock and left the key on the other. And my dream floated softly and easily, down the river. I made myself a soft bed in the boat and the river lulled me to sleep, sang me lullabies. The river washed out of me everything that should not be in me.