Niurkoniai Chapel

August 15, 2018

THIS. THIS IS THAT PLACE.

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RUST ON YOUR PALMS

smeared on your jeans.

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THE FARMER’S GIFT TO HIS BROTHER … 

… a thousand dead Russians dance in the dusk.

“IT’S BEAUTIFUL,”

you say. “Like a faded old photograph. Or a letter from the war.”

Hand on the pillar; flakes of plaster flutter to the weeds; tiny ghosts drowning.

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“COME”

I want to but I can’t. You go first. You always go first.

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ROOKS IN THE RAFTERS

a cackling coven. 

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How long has this lain forgotten?

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YOU 

and me now. Rediscoverers.

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IT’S TIME.

Now is the time.

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CLOSE  

the gate behind you.

Joseph Vavžeckis built this church in memory of his brother Thomas who fought in the Kościuszko Uprising against Russian power.