… Live like the grass, not asking: who you are.
Flow like water, not tempting memory.
— Anzhelina Polonskaya
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Still Life: The Arrangement.jpeg)
So Much Depends on a Red Pail
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Web Hypnotic
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She Who Sees All Who Come and Go
Trade for Space
SILENCE Is Deafening
In the Beginning: Erasure
H E L L O ! (G O O D B Y E?)
The Anniversary Celebration
NOTES
Anzhelina Polonskaya from the poem Photo Albums in Paul Klee’s Boat: Selected Poems (2013), trans from Russian by Andrew Wachtel.
Born in Malakhovka near Moscow, Polonskaya, a former figure skater who is banned from publishing in Russia but is translated and published in English by Zephyr Press, lives in Germany.
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Photo Albums
No question, the first things to be cursed
are photo albums: a girl with a ball and mommy.
A bench, the lilac bush should all be cast onto a bonfire.
And the sun declared outside the law.
Call some thieves - let them make off with the iron bedsteads
where we slept long and straight.
Then cut down the rowan by the fence
so we can't bury the dog beneath it.
There's no call to cry over emptiness.
And without the past in your pockets,
live like the grass, not asking; who are you.
Flow like water, not tempting memory.
