She was the first who showed me the moon and the first snow on the spruces, and the first rain. Back then, I was as little as a tiny seashell, and mother's black skirt rustling sounded like the Black Sea.
A night.
The oil in the lamp is burning out. A mosquito laments around my ear. Maybe it is you, mother, in the sky, is it you, this trickle of stars?
Or the white sail on the lake? Or a wave against the sloping shore? Perhaps your hands have sprinkled my manuscript with stardust?"
[Interlude]
"The clouds, hollows, acorns and knots have lighted up with great glare --- as if the whole world was a silver spruce, a silver bittern singing songs.
The leafs begin to rustle, the birds start singing," ..
[Interlude]
"My mother used to buy such candles, They are dozing. A nice intention is dwelling in them.
Just arrange them and light them, and see what goes out of them: a precious, rounded face gleam in the candles. Mother raises a finger. The wind will die away.
Kiss mother's hands and hair then sprinkle the snow on the alley ways, so it twinkles and crunches.