Stride confidently
While you can
Through groomed and gutted pastures,
The Earth laid out
Like a mortal banquet.
You are not
Just the guest.
In the unscrubbed mirror: Stork III
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In the unscrubbed mirror: Talsi lane
The wide way home
Weaves uncertainly;
The house
At the bend of the cobbled lane
Seems to have turned its back.
All the same
A gate stands open.
My secretly beautiful mother
Suddenly,
She danced across
The living room floor
Her fat legs transformed
Into feather-light wisps
Of summer air
Arms akimbo
A coquettish smile aglow.
You could have seen the gypsy girl
In her, that ancient thread
Of life she clung
So dearly to
In the face of all
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph
Trying desperately
To send her to hell.
In the unscrubbed mirror: Riga boating
Life’s a boat,
No ticket required,
No PFD issued,
Just you, naked, barefoot,
All agog,
Wearing only
The Captain’s braid.
In the unscrubbed mirror: Mežitis burial ground
All these fears came here,
The agony, the misunderstanding,
The hope, the joy,
The ordinary follies
Of good love and bad;
They’ve spilled away
Into the waiting earth.
Just this echo sounds,
Fading.
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