"THE ROE'S ROOM" "AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FILM OPERA" "Attention." "Now we look into the camera." "please stand motionless." "Look into the camera." "MUSIC" "Don't move." "There are some reflections in the window." "ACTORS" "SON" "MOTHER" "FATHER" "GIRL" "Don't walk over there." "For the picture, please." "VOICES" "SON" "MOTHER" "FATHER" "GIRL" "BEACIE AND IRKOWI" "SPRING" "Oh table levitate... above the town" "Oh table levitate... above the town" "When each bite of bread" "Perforates my palate" "And starry dust spirals above my head" "Oh levitate" "And don't let me forget" "That bits of bread can cure" "Numbness in our tongues" "Today we sit at the table" "As we do each night" "At dinner time" "When mother serves" "A steaming TV set" "And father carves it" "With fork and knife" "Today" "As usual" "They gave me the best cut" "Ajuicy throat" "Of a reporter" "And a sugar coated head" "Of a weatherwoman" "Today as well" "For the first time" "During dinner, I noticed nobody looked at me" "Her light awakens fear" "But it's easy to approach her" "When she spurts from the table" "From the chairs the wall" "The fountain is our mother." "Father's face shadows" "Only his eyes glow in the silence" "The fountain bore us" "Mother renders" "Cauldrons and bottles" "Sticky and without milk" "The fountain is our mother" "Trying to preserve her fertility" "She washes her breasts and hands" "The fountain bore us ln our apartment" "And we never know" "From where she'll spurt anew" "The fountain is our mother" "Her milk soothes pain" "The fountain is our mother" "And puts our fear to rest" "So we stand vigil in the darkness staring" "At furniture" "Unguarded moment ls too costly" "I cannot hammer nails anymore" "When I'm doing this" "Her body escapes" "From under my fingers" "I cannot hammer nails anymore" "Nor forgive myself" "My losses" "Every so often" "The wall overwhelms me" "I cannot anymore I don't know who she is" "Mother or lover" "Though at dawn l kiss her cold bare feet" "And undress her fragile plaster" "SUMMER" "SUMMER" "When there is a full moon I can never enter" "My father's room" "As soon as it arrives" "Father closes the door" "And doesn't speak to me" "Only at dawn l feel through my skin The presence of the moon I don't wake up though it's better that way" "To leave them alone" "At night ln the midst of our apartment" "Grows the tree whose roots" "Reach the neighbor below" "Whereas its crown" "Penetrates the ceiling of the bright room" "Of the one who lives above us" "We nurture our tree" "With stern care" "Water it each day" "And clean the bark" "Killing worms" "Grows the tree" "At night we believe ln our tree's omnipotence" "We feel needed" "Therefore we stand by" "Watching the filth" "Of the neighbor below" "We know about his thievery" "And drunkenness" "His blasphemies" "Reach us often" "Lying down on the floor" "We witness as every night" "In his damp and murky apartment" "He has a different woman" "Who always cries with ecstasy" "And hungrily nestles to her breast" "His hairy chest" "We are disturbed by not knowing" "What our neighbor above makes of it" "The peaceful and silent tenant" "As silent, as nonexistent" "Who every day ls lost in prayer" "But we believe that flowers" "Blooming from the branches ln his living room" "Draw juices from the dark soul" "Of the tenant below" "This image" "Always returns into my father's dream" "Naked I walk thoughtfully" "Through the dense garden of his library" "Touching the books" "He allowed me to touch" "And I am full of bitterness" "Father sees it and waits" "Until you fall asleep" "Then he kneels and touches your ribs" "So when awakened ln the arms of a close and distant woman" "You would feel carnal pleasure" "But father" "Still dreaming" "Cannot see" "That the woman who is oblivious" "To the warning voice that snakes" "Will break into the drawer" "She will break in and read" "That we are naked" "And unprotected in a dream" "Which only is" "Father's library" "At dawn" "Father will wake" "Under the weight of perspiration" "Only after a while" "Will he decide to rise" "Shuffling his feet" "Among the dried leaves" "Until he will understand" "That no one believes in dreams" "Anymore" "AUTUMN" "AUTUMN" "In our apartment" "The floors sprout grass" "So we can walk barefoot" "And enjoy it in silence" "The grass is good lt grows tall" "Entwining chair legs lt kills our fear" "Of loneliness" "Its wisdom ls also in its cycle" "It dies in spring" "To be reborn in winter" "Grass knows how to give birth" "As far as I can remember" "Mother sits at the table" "And instead of TV" "She watches grass" "Father scythes the grass ln our apartment a festivity begins" "We put on clean shirts" "And I turn off the record player" "Nobody knows that at night" "Dew covers the cut grass I wake up then" "With the taste of blood ln my mouth" "In the innermost room" "Of our apartment" "The roes graze" "Their moist eyes" "Touched by darkness shine" "And the furniture grows bark" "Each night" "Picked clean by roes' teeth" "We all sprout leaves" "Our roots crack the walls" "We all sprout leaves" "Our roots crack the walls" "Our faces bloom" "When nuzzled" "By velvet nostrils" "Father, mother and I" "We like to stare" "As the roes eat from our hands" "And walk safely" "Through our apartment" "Through our dream" "Though each evening" "The neighbors draw their radios" "And sharpen their TV sets" "WINTER" "WINTER ls it possible" "That one day we'll go away" "All of us" "The apartment will remain empty" "And the walls will dry up" "Without our breath ls it possible" "That flowers knobs and chairs" "Will not be ovegrown with moss" "Mother ever older" "And father in gloves" "So much pain in their bones" "We touch hidden corners" "Beat the carpets" "Not to think about it" "When dust presses itself too early" "Silently into our eyes and mouth" "We believe hidden tears will make dust fertile" "And someday we will overgrow with moss" "New mother and father, with their hands yet free" "From gloves will touch us in silence" "Enjoying the new moss in the old apartment" "Winter" "Already in my house" "Father has frozen upon the table" "Mother sways carrying the supper" "Against the wind that touches her eyes" "Chilled to the bone, my father's hand" "Attempts to transfer the reign inside the bed shackled with ice" "Pulses the spring of old blood" "I can't peel my face" "Frozen to the window" "I hear fading steps" "Crunching snow lt's you" "Fading away from the sky" "Iced in stillness" "Fluorescent frost" "Covers carnival trailers lron hearts ln shooting galleries" "My hand ls red like the dawn ln the chapped skin one can trace" "The contour of high mountains" "And forgotten touches" "Crystals on frosted windows" "Crumble in my hand" "And only silence and this waltz" "Will endure"