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reflections on belonging

a palmers chronicle right bw

Graphic Novels

From personal archive
The colors and the shapes
and the flat equalizing plane

Takes us away
From the noise of language

Photo by Saulius Vasiliauskas
Here comes a princess:

lovely, athletic, supple, and lean
her strike - like a lightning bolt.

Photo by Dirk Skiba
when i sleep i sleep with my hands between my legs
it looks like i’m praying to my gender

half of this life is given to sleep
what the other half is for    i don’t really know

Birutė Pūkelevičiūtė in her home, 1990. Unknown photographer. From the Maironis Lithuanian Literature Museum, MLLM F1 19418.
The forest here is strange:
No echo answers, no shadows fall,
deafened birds don't hear each other — — —

don’t you open the window my child
don’t open it
the wind will tangle your hair
and then you’ll see
and then you’ll see

Photo by Dirk Skiba
I feel constant guilt as a human
because I could do more than I do
because I seem to always fall behind
                                                 and rain falls

Photo by Vygaudas Juozaitis
someday
reality will become worthless
your pockets
will fill with sand

Photo by Arūnas Sartanavičius
Beyond St. Anne’s and the Bernardines,
where the liturgical calendar
is marked by a family of bells,
the monastery is held
within sand, and hills, and all that is green.

Photo from personal archive
When I was small, my mother explained the
colors of the flag to me: yellow is the wheat field in
the month that I was born; green is the forest tree in
the summer; red is the blood released so she could be
here to tell me.

Photo from authors personal archive
but there is no war
says the boy
running down the street
the war ended
when the planes came
and we didn't make it
to the shelter

Maironis by the rectory,1930. From Maironis Lithuanian Literature Museum collection.
With such beauty the heart is freed
For the traveller who yearns to roam.
If only the eye could still see to see
The shores of Dubysa, my home.

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