588 Poetry entries in Mag: Articles
Irreversible Landscapes
Irreversible is the river on whose back dead leaves swirl. Irreversible are words- the dust of roads mingled with breath, warm breath that sticks to our trembling lips like fog to a boat.Irreversible is…...
The Island You and I
living on an island far from cities with traffic lights and people.Outside we hear the rustlings of a bed of reeds where the wind with its toothless mouth blows luring in tides.A boat is moored on the…...
February Sky
Large, gray, sprawled like an old elephant. Winter is ending. Low, sloping roofs are overturned boats slumbering along the shores of drowsiness.Twenty years of an oak tree's life is burned instantly…...
The Postman
He comes to me every day with a cruel bounce in his step with eyes darting like little green flames- the town postman in a heavy, damp coat jovially announcing he has nothing for me. I see his blue uniform…...
The Cinema
Without fail Sundays at the cinema were always rainy days big black umbrellas clashing against the ticket booth. The doorman among the torn stubs looked like a watercolor hung crookedly on a kitchen wall.…...
It’s Not Time For . . .
It's not time for a change. As long as I can remember it's never been time for a change. Like cars that screech to a halt houses stand poised in their old breeding ground of rotten acacia leaves.From…...
An Alphabetical Formation
Alif You're not beginning . . . It's an eternity, you know . . . I mean, the ever-after, you know No matter, then. Raise your cavalry But do not leave behind the horizon, Or the sea . . . or the…...
Groans
1 Here I am you alone In this mad, gaping Hell Here I am you alone and death altogether With its predators and its seers and the informers Perhaps I am arriving at The limit of my possibilities For you…...
Shadows on the Snow
The snow comes late this year. Violet shadows doze like shepherds round a white fire. The swaying shadow of a fence looks like a woman's clavicle- a woman who dreams of her lover's snowy journey…...
An Alphabetical Formation
Alif You're not beginning . . . It's an eternity, you know . . . I mean, the ever-after, you know No matter, then. Raise your cavalry But don't set out for the horizon, Or the sea . . . or…...
AGAIN: IN THE INTERVALS OF SLEEP
what is watching
always comes to an end:
and the day! and the world! . .
it is the unique
the unceasing -
is…...
CONSOLATION: ROSES
to N. A.
in your presence even the toes
are as if they remembered!
and the mind more strongly
pierces our head
in…...
THIRD GRASSHOPPER
(after the "Grasshoppers" of Velimir
Khlebnikov and e.e. cummings)
to my son Andrey
grasshopper-sign flickers
over…...
AND: LIKE A WHITE PAGE
in dust is no vowel. . . death is a sound:
a shout - to God?
he - in the surface of dust:
is what then - a gleam?
oh…...
FIELD - ALL YEAR - OUT OF THE WINDOW
to W. Woroczylski
behind my back - it seemed - were islands:
of the terror-idea! -
as if a certain…...
PLACE: A BEER-STALL
oh clearly
with gathered force
everywhere it shows itself:
skyglow of the year
like features of the land:
drawing:
from…...
WORK: MORNING: PAPERS
to V. S.
but you are not the surrounding of such a one
but a stair in yourself where poverty is like skyglow:
oh ice-holes of…...
FACE THEREAFTER
whole -
with a whisper of ordering of the firmament
and as out of the shining face
in a time of sorrow -
mine -
I create it<
and…...
from Mozart’s Third Brain
LV
Democracy's secret In free, general elections, with secret ballots
There, too, is music's concealment, its inaccessibility, eye
to eye Where…...
New Year
New Year, don't come to our homes, for we are wanderers from a ghost-world, denied by man. Night flees from us, fate has deserted us We live as wandering spirits with no memory no dreams, no longings,…...
