Birutė Mar Poems

from all of my lives -
I remember one autumn
in the memory of that autumn -
I peer through a rivery window
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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…
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to learn a variety of tricks
to wear a dress coat, a wig
deftly change makeup and masks
shoot (from an empty rifle)
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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
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I will wait

until my tears are poised to fall
lined -up like drops on a tree
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