Nature Morte

leftover lamb
stuck
between high peak teeth:
clouds

 

***

I have come too far:
strange birds
strange trees

 

***

beer and kefir –
father and son
both at the table

mustachioed

 Permission to land - Photo by Mindaugas Valiukas

 

The Stone

breathes no more
but remains

warm

 

***

I’m so beautiful!
thinks the maple tree
blushing even harder

 

***

frogs lift heads
to follow
flying storks:
in longing

 

Icarus on Foot

a spider
climbing
a candle

 

I don’t know my birds

they always
fly away

 

Garlic and Apples - Photo by Mindaugas Valiukas

Dausprungas’ Cat

having just shat
from the sill he admires
a cherry tree in bloom

 

Trespassers II - Photo by Mindaugas Valiukas

Dausprungas’s Pilgrimage Discovery, Nr. 91

if suddenly they went silent:

all the sirens
and car alarms,
and the shitting
dogs would cease
to yap, and planes
would freeze in the air

at exactly seven
o’clock
in the morning

and for a little while
after

we would hear

the brooms

of thirty odd
Vilnius

church-
yards

 

Dausprungas’ Telephone: To Do List

 

 

 

 

 

(nothing to do)

 

Memento Mori

live fish
in the fish sec-
tion swim

next to
dead
carp heads

 

Dausprungas’ Observation N. 203

the only
thing
that

fits
everyone without
exception

is

a
clown

’s no
se

 

Insomnia

I
hate
sheep

 Window - Photo by Mindaugas Valiukas

 

So I Saw Joan of Arc

as she
went
to sip
some secret
hootch
in the WC

so

proud
so
fanatically
faithful
to

her
goal

 

Deep in my Heart

bloody hell

 

Dausprungas’ Penultimate Observation

what
does

n’t
kill
me

makes
me

a killer

Piano - Photo by Mindaugas Valiukas

 

Translated by Rimas Uzgiris