Lowly
by Apollo Chastain
Eat past midnight. Fold dough like fresh clothes. Frosty glass of milk. Night pools over blue- coated housewives kneeling on the tile. Il est possible que Noël pour vous est un arrive à quelque chose de nouveau. O mano súneli, mano dobiléli, o mano artojéli, mano šienpiuvéli! Golden shards of mane shed constellations on sky, blue pews. O as viena, neturiu nei jokios patiekéles, neturiu su kumi pasidžiaugti. A glass bowl of stars. Visu süneliai po lygius laukelius. Flour specks in tepid milk. He grips my chin with two fingers like plucking a dumpling from a plate. We spoon mushrooms into lush pockets ot dough. HIs muscles bulge like filling. I brush his mane then take a comb to all the flames on all the candles. He wears Calvin Klein to church, moves lıke a big cat under his winter clothes. Dievas davé dantis, duos dar ir duonos. To be saved is to be needed. 1 knead his teet, the lotion mılky. Koldünai cool under a yellow candle. Seigneur, toi qui a dit: Bienheureux les doux, ils posséderont la terre. Flour blooms. Dumplings splay in boiling water, unkempt manes. Candles block the windows with their bodies. His palms at my waist. Butter cools. Ta Tendresse fasse surgir sur mes lèvres les paroles qui rétablissent la paix. Stubble stings my lips ke I've eaten a palmful of now. I kneel after we kiss. Protège-nous!Protège-nous! Protège-nous!Protège-nous! Protège-nous!Protège-nous! Daybreak softens the glass. At dawn, milk pours out blue. Throat bobs like dumplings at the boil. He nods at the house cat congregation. Circlet of glass, single pool over the nave. Lion bows his head to drink. I lick his muzzle. Ilight a candle. I chew tender scraps of dough. Išauš pavasarélis, c'est à dire, celui qui comprend et qui pardonne. Some language is borrowed from an uncredited raudà in A. Juška's Lëtuviszkos dainos użraszytos.
