You’re all around

I watch your surface ripple as you rush past
to meet your other, vast, salty self
in the unimaginable distance

Promise of a vastness half-fathomed
faint sound of seagulls
that you haven’t yet met

The trees in their sun clothes
with a veil of mopey cloud
live their secret other lives
in your loving reflection

You’re all around

You kiss my hair and soak my hems
drum on the world that bears me
a billion notes falling from the skies

You’re all around

The exuberant, rich fountain
glittering sun’s gold
bubbling murmur
children’s clear squeals

You’re all around

Tamed in my shower
mine, in my own home
I hide in your steam
you take me in and you take away
the day, the mask, the load
Where?
I would not know
until I’m all that’s left

You’re all around

You’re life and clarity and infinite muddy depths
shimmering reflections
doors between worlds
force unstoppable

You’re there when I cry
you’re there when I swallow
you’re there when I feed my baby
you’re there
in my blood
the imprint of an ancient sea
ever changing, ever renewed

You’re all

Mirror, mirror in my bag
Tell me now, without a lag
About the world
About my friends
About events in the farthest lands
Show me, teach me
Entertain me
Never lonely, your glow sustains me

Mirror, mirror in my purse
Am I enough? Did I come first?
Do I compare? Or am I worse?

Mirror, mirror in my pocket
What is this, what is this racket?
Has the world gone mad?

Mirror, mirror, it’s too much!
Why ever would you show me such?
Mirror, mirror in my mind
Please let me go, be so kind
Mirror, mirror in my soul
Get out now, you’ve made a hole!
Mirror, mirror all around
No escape is to be found…

Mirror, mirror, cursed by evil
behind you, there is still a world

Krabička ako od zápaliek
Taká úzka
Vinie sa krajinou
Takou šírou

Tam vonku dážď a šero
Lepia sa na okná
Tu dnu žlté svetlo a teplo z radiátorov
Suší dáždniky a pršiplášte

Medzi nami
Len slimáčia ulita z kovu

A little matchbox
So narrow
Winding through the countryside
So wide

Out there – rain and dusk
Sticking to the windows
In here – yellow light and heat from the radiators
Drying umbrellas and raincoats

Between us
Only a snail shell of metal

Eyes sticky with dreams, blinking in the darkness
There’s the door, a window, white walls
Where?

Someone next to me, breathing in the stillness
A girl – my sister?
Who?

Thoughts coalescing like raindrops on a window
Who am I?
Where is mom?
No
When am I?
I am mom
The girl—my daughter

The droplets gliding forward
Seamlessly
Skipping decades
Smeared over time
Coming to focus here and now

The taste of the girl that exists no more
Still in my mind

How can I blame you
My little baby
For ignoring my “no”
Even if I think, lately
What I mean by it you know
How can I blame you
For ignoring my “no"s
If I do it too
When chocolate is close

You taught me there is always a reason to dance
There is music in the sound of the shower
The coming of the train
The spinning of the spinning top
The sound of a blender
And I wonder how and when I forgot

I think the spring is here
I guess the spring is here
I hope the spring is here
I know the cold is still here
But I have seen no snow for days
And the light
Oh the light is just so beautiful
So I think the spring is here
I guess, I hope
So I will put on my sandals
To greet it
Or to wish it here

Dandelions, tulips and roses
Daffodils and violets
And those tiny blue flowers I don’t know the name of
but seem to be your favourite
You walk your little unsteady steps
From one to the other
Touching
Crushing
Carrying
Yelling
Smashing
Waving

Appreciating

And you are right, little one
Sometimes beauty has to be tasted

Tell me, red tulip from under the trees
How did you find yourself in their green shade?
How can you grow there with such shameless ease?
How do you enjoy this home that you made?
Tell me, red tulip, please, prove me wrong
How can you grow where you do not belong?

I’m standing on the porch
The world is quiet
So eerily quiet
No leaves rustling
No birds chirping
No insects buzzing
So completely quiet
The darkness is falling
Onto the heavy silence
The lighning strikes far in the distance
Again and again
Behind me the lights of the house are ablaze
The sound of laughter
Music
Clinking cutlery
Before me the darkness is falling
And the world is quiet
Save for the thunder reaching me now
Again and again
I turn around
Open the door
And the light and sounds of another world wash over me
A world that forgot the storms