Our friend and collaborator Martin Nawrath (born 1968) published his first poetry collection, Encounters, last year in the Brno publishing house Druhé město – Martin Reiner. The collection contains more than sixty poems, accompanied by delicate ink illustrations by the painter Jan Pražan; I have selected a total of twelve poems from it as a sample for the PILGRIM website. The themes of Martin's poetry are the fragile beauty of the world, the fascination of its…