Vladas Braziūnas

for Algimantas Aleksandravičius the final beginning: apparitions – the waters glide the frightened mood, hasps closed hard, the palm into a cupped hand, a convulsive fist, fist of women, go out, look, the stains of lightheat try to converse with the meditating, it seems, all finding themselves before the lenses, hiding behind a mask, float to the zone of obscurity, the author waits for rain, perhaps it will wash clean, float on its streams the washed the naked, the uncomforted, the untranslatable into language familiar to us, all that matters is the light coming from the final darkness, only the eye only half an eye illuminating half a glance sinks into an infant’s body, wrinkles, wrinkled clouds filled with rain, undrained, the relationship subjective causal connections but invisible, ocular pressure rises the flood rises, the ebbtide explodes, carries us away