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Rebeca Filincowsky Iack 5/28/26 Rebeca Filincowsky Iack 5/28/26

Go Easy

Between flowers, distant cities, and passing seasons, “Go Easy” reflects on love, absence, survival, and the quiet sorrow of time that never stops turning.

This is a reflective poem about loving someone through changing seasons, unfinished conversations, and the fragile motion of life itself.

“Go Easy”—translated from Brazilian Portuguese “Leva a vida na brincadeira” — is what my grandmother used to tell me. And I dedicate this poem to her.

“Don’t keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before.”