When I was a little girl every summer I spent with my great grand mother in a small Russian village.
There was an old woman who I had heard could heal any illness. And I had seen people we who were visiting her almost everyday. Some one said that she could just touch a person's hand and the sickness would dissapear or look and say what's wrong. I remember she had a grey cat who was almost twenty years old. And the house was full of the dry or fresh grass and flowers.
Many years after when the woman was very old I saw her swimming in the boat towards the big forest. She was standing on the boat and used a long wooden stick to navigate where the river goes far in the forest.
Me and a few kids were standing on the cost and watching her.
After that no one had seen her. Police asked as about that woman, but she has never returned.
Poems,stories and pictures by Irina Mouravleva.
