Birutė Mar
Birutė Mar Poems
from all of my lives -
I remember one autumn
in the memory of that autumn -
I peer through a rivery window
...
1. A ROLE, or all the roles -
played once upon a time and forgotten,
the most dear, i.e., the ones that somewhere remain present,
and the ones that somewhere become reverie…
...
to learn a variety of tricks
to wear a dress coat, a wig
deftly change makeup and masks
shoot (from an empty rifle)
...
no more candles, child
really, none
can't remember the year they were gone without a trace
I do remember - it was snowing, fifty years ago
...
I will wait
until my tears are poised to fall
lined -up like drops on a tree
...
Birutė Mar Biography
Birutė Mar (Marcinkevičiūtė) is a poet. She attended the J. Naujalis Art School and studied at the St. Petersburg Institute of Theatre, Music, and Cinematography. Since 1993 she has been an actress at the Vilnius Academic Theatre, and later the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre. Mar made her debut with the poetry collection Unsent Letters (Neišsiųsti laiškai) in 1995. Kokoro, a book of essays based on impressions from travels in Japan, was published in 1999, while her second poetry collection, Solo, appeared in 2001. Her diary of a trip to East Asia, Homes Redolent with Cinnamon (Cinamonu kvepiantys namai), was published in 2007.)
The Best Poem Of Birutė Mar
[from all of my lives]
from all of my lives -
I remember one autumn
in the memory of that autumn -
I peer through a rivery window
in that window -
I see an open stretch of road
on that road -
I find a footprint
in that footprint -
I build a house
in that house -
I plant my childhood fern
in that fern -
I dream of a shining blossom
on that blossom -
I see a fallen drop
in that drop -
I recognize an old face
in that face -
I hear my own voice…
Translated by J.C. Todd
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