Untitled #21 (Nijole Miliauskaite Poems)
I look at youas you sleepin the wicker bedwhere so many childrenhave slept beforemy best friend'slittle daughteryour breath is like ...
Nijole Miliauskaite Poems (59 Poems)
Untitled #23 (Nijole Miliauskaite Poems)
Delicate little girl, youlooked straightinto my heartwith the blue eyesof wild chicoryyou could havebeen my daughteryour childhoodand minecould have intertwinedas ...
The Poet’s Grave (Nijole Miliauskaite Poems)
not onestar -a calm, windlesseveningshriveled frozen earth, freezingcurly chrysanthemum heads- only from afarmy beloved hill glistensas if all the stars ...
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small willowtree, in full bloomin a yard winter left cluttered, at the tailend of april, locked in by the everydayflowering ...
Sitting Beside The Very Street (Nijole Miliauskaite Poems)
sitting beside the very streeton a dilapidated bench, paint peelingpeople stroll past, children scurryan infant left in a carriage outside ...
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river of my childhoodwith every springtime floodthe river washes awayour footbridgewashes over the fieldsright up to the orchardevery spring therising ...
Untitled #13 (Nijole Miliauskaite Poems)
it was not Alisathe girl who posed in the photographwith barefeet, half-naked, dressedin rags, her dark haircropped shortone hand pressed ...
From: The Home We Will Never Live In That Place (Nijole Miliauskaite Poems)
that place, where one springwe saw a grass snake -greenish goldwhere a forest streamcurled around a meadow, laughing; fallentrees lay rotting, ...
Untitled #26 (Nijole Miliauskaite Poems)
This smell, of lipstickand powder, I adored itI can almost hear the rustleof real silk - my mother'sparty gowna golden ...
Untitled #22 (Nijole Miliauskaite Poems)
you rushed inlaughingsuch a sweet little thingone summer daya few years agorushed into my lifeand you're still thereholding your breathwide-eyed,you ...
Femme Fatale (Nijole Miliauskaite Poems)
how simplythis river flowswinding its waythrough the meadowshow simplythis river flowsholding a full embrace of wheatbefore ushow simplyit carries our ...
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five years of wanderingthrough strange roomsthrough hospitalsthrough uninhabited islandshow thin are the threadsthat hold us togetherwith the worldhow painfulthe spider ...
Untitled #33 (Nijole Miliauskaite Poems)
and you, who swallowed the one and onlypomegranate seed - red and bittersweetyou had to go to the underground, to ...
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That samenarrow white road through the forestspreading trees, summer, and beyond the benda lake, water calm and deepa losthome, returnedin ...
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along worn stone steps, steepwooden staircases, laddersspiral tower stairson the stairs of our houseyour silent spiritentered and illuminatedall the corners, ...
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on winter nights, when my grandmotherwent to workI carried a lanternto light her waylarge snow drifts on either side of ...
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a little girlhas moved intomy mirrorI don't evenknow her namea bit too seriousa bit too paleas if after an illnesslike ...
Even My Hands Are Restless (Nijole Miliauskaite Poems)
even my hands are restlessladen with stiff laundrytaken from the clotheslinehere in a small townit can't bethat in your life ...
Untitled #9 (Nijole Miliauskaite Poems)
Youwho led the way into the forest'scool shadows: your foreheadwas marked by a tiny forget-me-notthat grew alongside the ditch when ...
Untitled #12 (Nijole Miliauskaite Poems)
a cold evening, swollen painfulwillow budsmigrating birds areperched in the skeletonsof trees along the shore like greatblack blossomsa small reddish ...
Untitled #27 (Nijole Miliauskaite Poems)
how you wishedto get sickhave the snow come downin large quiet chunksread Dickensin bed, untilyour temperature would rise,toward evening, andthey ...
Untitled #25 (Nijole Miliauskaite Poems)
lying flat on thick transparent iceyou look for a very long timeintensely, into the verybottom of the lakeeven your head ...
Untitled #11 (Nijole Miliauskaite Poems)
birdswith black heads, black wingsblack beaks, black hooked talonsdark grey bodiesin the seaside townbigas hensI've never seen such birdsthey walk ...
Children’s Taste (Nijole Miliauskaite Poems)
there was a time when we atethe swollen buds of linden treessticky and sweetthe sap of cherry trees, more deliciousthan ...
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I found a golden hairon the snowI picked it upa long longgolden hairleft by an angelhe rested here onceby the ...
Untitled #6 (Nijole Miliauskaite Poems)
here, where eternally frozen earthhas imprisoned my bonesyou carrya golden sprig of mistletoein your handyou cometo set me freethe first ...
Untitled #1 (Nijole Miliauskaite Poems)
I know a place where when youbrush your foot across the sandthe sand moans sadlyas if weepingsometimesa woman appears there, ...
Untitled #31 (Nijole Miliauskaite Poems)
a crowfrozen into the snowa draftin the dingy hospital rooma face sufferingin a white metal bedwhenare you leaving?in a dreamI ...
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So that one day you couldsay quietlywith a smilemy home(Nijole Miliauskaite)