enduring life, while water drips from the eaves
when people are killed from behind their back
to run and run without ease
or plod step by step through fallow black
short-lived as frosty ferns on window glass
prolonged as a candle by my father’s bedside
some unexpected thing should have come to pass
as they walked, they walked through fire and ice
until they broke through the ice, until they no longer ingest
until they lacerated their feet, until they pared their skin
until dawn, the dawns of tomorrows promised
dripping dripping steadily steadily
Versta 2010
Poetinis Druskininkų ruduo 2010 = Druskininkai Poetic Fall 2010 / sudarytojas ir vyriausiasis redaktorius Kornelijus Platelis = Compiler and editor-in-chief Kornelijus Platelis. – Vilnius: Vaga, 2010. – P. 41.