Children go to school

Bunches of fours and fives

Some ware cloths not suitable for the weather

Carrying

Dragging

Rolling

Heavy backpacks

Shuffling their snickers

On pavement

Stopping at the intersections

Waiting for the crossing guards

Who stop the traffic

With their cardboard Stop-signs

Continue dragging their feet

Talking to each other

About everyday stuff

Movies

Games

Classes

Teachers

Cars

Space ships

Dogs

Dragons

Skateboard tricks

Snacks

I go with them

Slowed down by their flow

Looking at their little shoulders

And their uncombed heads

Listening to their little conversations

I don't need to go to school

I go to the park

To be alone

***

Start playing

Let's start the party

I have all these fruits and a fish

It's looking at you with regret

Tango

I never understand that move

Yes and that too

Stop piercing me with your cool glasses

I'll give you the chance

You'll shine

Confetti

All colors

All shapes that you have thought of

You put in that block of ice

But your feet are frozen

Some champagne?

Right on your head

You like it that way

I know

I sow you before

Before you even knew

That this party is for two

***

No

You can not take it

Ask for something less corruptive

Something that's easy to steal

You are not that kind

You prefer cash

Lot's of it

I'll give you that responsibility

Now you are in charge

Mr. General

Comrade

Your mama

Listen

Be so kind

Stand still

The pins can hurt you

You will be waltzing all night

She will be yours

And you will be smiling

Be careful

Watch for those images of yours

They will stay with me

And I will tell you when to stop

***

Just a little bit of white rice

In a blue bole

Steam is coming up

I like steam

I like being asked

But I'll wait

Let the thoughts find their way naturally

You watered those plants before leaving

Music

Loud enough to hear the beat

At times

A stray light reflected from the passing-by car

Now what?

Jasmine tea

***

I opened a book

And there were you

Smiling

Who knows

What I drunk last night

Just remember

The moon

And you

Walking on the gravel path

But chocolate taste

Inside the dressing room

Chased me far

Like a hound

Like it was so important

So beautiful and sad

And I was alone

Everybody asked me

But I knew only your name

And how you kissed me

Many times

Water in the river

Attracts seagulls

How many times

I knew you

And I still

Don't know

***

Why now?

Why holding everything in one hand

I despise my own approach

I look for the individuality

In commonness

In everydayness

What?

You disagree

I see that

In your eyes everything stands where you put it

Even I

Have my own place

In your sense of order

But wait

I will show you

What it means to be displaced

From start to finish

It's all just a big curve to avoid predisposed points

To fly free of attaching ties

Try to ignore it and you will be at the wall

Counting seconds

***

Dream # 1

Fish in the dark water

What do you want of me?

Tell me

Why is water so murky?

Why there are so many of you

Starring at me?

From behind the glass

Who built this tank?

The size of a big room

Who built this house?

With stairs going somewhere up

Calling me and warning all at the same time

I want to go

But the fish

Doesn't allow me

And somebody else

Behind

I know I have to finish

Something that I even didn't start

Something that everyone around me finished

And they have a good time

But I am excluded

Fish

Looks at me

Fish knows me

And I don't even know

Myself

***

Dream # 2

Dark room in a giant house

Dark and enormous all parts of it

Stairs

Walls

Lamps

Ceiling

No windows

No doors

Just walking from room to room

Magically

Being transferred

To other spaces

Equally dark

It's not unfriendly

But I don't want to be here

And I know that this is just a dream

But my will power can't make a door

To escape

***

The old man has an opinion

His dry lips put into a tight gap-less smile

Snowflakes just started their flight

But the ground is not ready

To receive their beauty

Too fragile

Too transparent

White

His blue eyes

The blue eyes of an old man

Cooled by years

By bad news

Too many for one individual

He knows that if one doesn't stand the ground

His small opinion would be wiped off

Like with a sponge soaked in a antibacterial liquid

So the nice Formica top will shine like new

No trace

No bad feelings

***

White and brown

Everything I see is made of those two

No

Wait

My hand

It is alien to this post-Christmas scene

My neighbor with his shovel

I can hear his heavy breathing from across the street

And I go home

Snow on my boots

***

Dog behind the fence

Throwing himself violently

Against the wooden obstacle

Snarling and barking

As if it's the end of the world

C'mon buddy

Cheer up

I look into the sky

Clear

Blue

Just a couple of feathery clouds

I make a little giggling sound

And thank this reddish-brown fence

Passing by

***

Tree

Lights

Snow outside

I am alone

Night

What book should I take

From the shelf

Looking at me

Ivory netsky

With belly laughing

At me

Probably

Who else

Everyone else is asleep

***

Love to speak slowly
Love to take what comes to me
As something not related
To you
To me
To us we're just two faces
with eyes
with eyes....

***

There to be only one at a time

Some to remind of

And then to be sure

Any of those who suppose

Recognize only so much

Of what said to be the one

***

I asked the postman

And he

Turned his head looking back

To the tunnel between the trees

And houses along the street

What's the matter?

Your bag...

It's heavier then usually today

Or am I causing you detour

With dogs and puddles

On the rim of afternoon delivery spree

I guess this won't make you fatter

Than those who sent you

With a bunch of junk

Mail

You may call it

Suffocation will not be your fate

No

Maybe some arthritis

It all depends on diet

And stress

What else?

I'll lock my door

And listen to the knock

Of the metal box

No question

For today

Go your marry way

You are free

***

You said something

The words hung in the stiff air

I took them one by one

And I made a pattern

That made everything impossible

At the same moment

A little bubble that contained us

Broke

And we turned into time

***

Dark and somewhat soft silhouette

Of the distant trees

Like a cautious bird

That sits in dry grass

Waiting

Its black shiny eye

Bead-like and nervous and still

Wings flattened

The beak is pointing up

Ready to jump up into the cold air

Flapping its wings

Trying to feel invisible resistance

Of the emptiness

Above the heavy mass of the raw landscape

You stepped up to me

And you smile

Just a bit

While keeping your eye

On that pearly sky

With no wind

Or bird

***

If you allow me to have you

Like a tree gives itself to rain

Its every leaf and branch

And every underground root

While it rains

It has it all

I can be as gentle and quiet

Like a ...

But no rain is forever

In this beloved world

***

Tree

Do you know that

I am walking by?

And some other people

Actually countless number of them

Dogs

Cats

Pigeons

Do you feel

When a nail is driven

To the juicy meat

Of your bark?

Can you know that?

When a fat squirrel

Jumping from branch to branch

Flirting

With another fat squirrel

Twitching its tail

Making noise

When the cold weather and rain

Starting hitting hard

***

Such little sadness

It sits above the blank spot on the wall

Right where you are looking

This afternoon didn't come without its price

There

Outside the house

The rain takes care

Of what you wanted to do for a long time

Winter still holds you on that note

Where you stopped whispering

Love

Can you alone hold it indefinitely

Cherish and protect it?

Bird is not a bird

While sitting in its nest

Only when it flies

That's how love

Can only live between you two

And never just in one

***

On such occasion

When you feel like falling off the window

Like a baby bird falls off the nest

Just to be discovered by a cat

You may wish

That the day would be of a special clarity

Sunny

And little bit warm

It also nice

To have some flowers

Not much

But just enough to say

At least it's not winter

On such occasion

You want to be seen

By somebody who knows words

Of the song you always tried to remember

But never could

And if you fall

Please

Make sure – not into the hard ground

It should be a grand endless falling

Into some whiteness

Light and easy

Like a feather

Dropped by a wing of a white bird...

***

Wind followed me along the edges

Of the semi frozen pond

Ducks

Noisy seagulls were disturbing slightly

This otherwise silent place

Three dead fish

Quite big – about twenty inches long

I noticed them on the grass

They were frozen too

Like everything else

That didn't manage to live

In this cold and windy morning

***