The frozen dream lakes
envisioned one Christmas Eve,
the water’s morning glint
through the blindness of a solid wall,
a wall solid brick, stacked up in the dark,
just a window
into space, cut
like a hole in ice: with it open,
you’d lean there,
confronted by stars in the winter dark,
with a frosted rose there,
an encrusted ficus up high,
wave on wave of snowed-in rooftops
through the aloe hedge,
O the lakes of dreaming,
O the bleak lids on oblivion,
the small white marble table over there,
that small cup
with an edging for those who won’t forget,
the snowdrifts in bleak clouds.
(Judita Vaiciunaite)
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