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reflections on belonging

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Graphic Novels

Birutė Pūkelevičiūtė in her home, 1990. Unknown photographer. From the Maironis Lithuanian Literature Museum, MLLM F1 19418.
The forest here is strange:
No echo answers, no shadows fall,
deafened birds don't hear each other — — —

don’t you open the window my child
don’t open it
the wind will tangle your hair
and then you’ll see
and then you’ll see

Photo by Dirk Skiba
I feel constant guilt as a human
because I could do more than I do
because I seem to always fall behind
                                                 and rain falls

Photo by Vygaudas Juozaitis
someday
reality will become worthless
your pockets
will fill with sand

Photo by Arūnas Sartanavičius
Beyond St. Anne’s and the Bernardines,
where the liturgical calendar
is marked by a family of bells,
the monastery is held
within sand, and hills, and all that is green.

Photo from personal archive
When I was small, my mother explained the
colors of the flag to me: yellow is the wheat field in
the month that I was born; green is the forest tree in
the summer; red is the blood released so she could be
here to tell me.

Photo from authors personal archive
but there is no war
says the boy
running down the street
the war ended
when the planes came
and we didn't make it
to the shelter

Maironis by the rectory,1930. From Maironis Lithuanian Literature Museum collection.
With such beauty the heart is freed
For the traveller who yearns to roam.
If only the eye could still see to see
The shores of Dubysa, my home.

Photo by Vida Ponelienė
a time when people were
not afraid of each other?

must be a bad joke

ask any rowan
by the road

Photo by Anette Mück
A lonely lover sings
Or maybe
We are the song
The lyrics don't make sense
We keep forgetting the words
Let's stay for another one
Just one more

Photo by Kamilė Blauzdytė
i have a dark pocket
i try to avoid that place in my mind
where the Earth is a little blue marble
the size of a pea and we are
never there

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