Today’s program is about innocence and what it may mean to lose it.  In my last program, I suggested that poets sometimes depict a sudden break in their poems, a movement from innocence to the consequences and realities of lived experience. The moment at which innocence is lost is a powerful one and poets sometimes affirm that lost innocence cannot be brought back, no matter how powerful the cajoling, no matter how much or how hard we try to reclaim it. There may also be a movement toward unity, toward understanding the inherent dualities of life, depicted in such poems. The program includes my translations of poems by two Lithuanian poets that explore such a possibility and it ends with two of my own prose poems.