Mantas Stockus
Year and Country of Birth: 1990 Lithuania
Live at Present: Malta
Mantas Stockus is a Malta-based Lithuanian. He has MA in Modern-and-Contemporary Literature and Criticism and is particularly interested in thought-provoking writing and poetry. His writing has appeared in various print and digital publications.
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with the sun
a bird’s song rises
from a building crack
through a hole
in a metal sheet
the wind speaks
Frogpond 44.1, Winter 2021
storm clouds
fill the streets
with silence
Blithe Spirit 31.2, Spring 2021
a bamboo brush
erases the last order
from a wok pan
Akitsu Quarterly, Fall 2021
the mosquito net
makes the sky
a shade darker
Trash Panda, Winter 2021
a homeless man
throws breadcrumbs on the snow
for the sparrows
Blithe Spirit 32.2, Spring 2022