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reflections on belonging

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Graphic Novels

From personal archive
I should like to take you someday
to the underground vaults of this city,
where beneath the steel-clad enclosures
the fiery carbuncle stone glows.

Photo by Gintarė Dzedulionė
I still act out of hunger, out of absence,
I drive myself with a whip of boundless plains.
Endless journeys exist.
Conquered wastelands are too small.

Photo by Jonas Krivickas
closing my eyes doesn’t help
I press my palms against my lids
to see the stars –
islands of light
in a sea of darkness

I’m not sure whether I should be thankful to Tomas Petrulis for creating me, for while writing his book THE BODY OF A THING he would force me into awkward and even dangerous situations.

Photo by Dainius Dirgėla
Someday they’ll understand why we locked ourselves in the bathroom.
Even now they aren’t sure if I’m in there writing, or you’re dictating.

From personal archive
The colors and the shapes
and the flat equalizing plane

Takes us away
From the noise of language

Photo by Saulius Vasiliauskas
Here comes a princess:

lovely, athletic, supple, and lean
her strike - like a lightning bolt.

Photo by Dirk Skiba
when i sleep i sleep with my hands between my legs
it looks like i’m praying to my gender

half of this life is given to sleep
what the other half is for    i don’t really know

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

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