A young dancer lies near the heart
Of the hoary world. A phonograph
Scratches through a finished record
Rustling like the wind. And the dawn,
Swimming through the window’s cold glass,
Timidly reflects itself in a mirror
And, dimming in the lacquered table,
Sees a darkening engraving on the wall:
A narrow-eyed Japanese courtesan
Whose dress blossoms with chrysanthemums
And behind whose back from a yellow mist
A rootless tree grows in the heavens.
(Henrikas Radauskas)
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