Alexandr Skidan
dear fingers, please tell your fingerprints the other's skin still bear an ash of their narrative dear fingerprints, please tell your nails the narrative was fragmented yet readable dear nails, you are almost irrelevant <mistake: illegible> but please tell your arms the space between male and female was ground zero or so they called it while measuring gender differences by means of mouth and tongue dear tongue, please tell the differences or so they called it in august penetrated by dust dear last, please
Translated by Larissa Shmailo and the author
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it's like a rain wall
or a wall of news
when you crumble like chalk
as if the world lurched
and it could still be saved
only in this way
crumbling
but the world is precisely this wall of news
into which your chalk is embedded
* * *
speech stones flow around the dictionary of nothing
you have seven of them in your sinus
mouth, nine
aporia accompanies lyusis
<unleashing decision>
when you decide to untie
the node of life
say
* * *
the grammarian distributes the semes
a fraction of seeds
sacrificial miniscule
a name is a gravestone
circumcision
and shiva's wool is dipped in a boiling column
of dancing flames
but the heart
heart in vain
Translated by Larissa Shmailo
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<melting of ice>
thaw of the substance of value
global warming
in a relationship
between ectoplasm and stem cells
cortical computer and alpenstock
your mantle, o Earth nomos!
your solar corona on the ecliptic!
cognitive dissonance
cognitive capitalism
in a trap of love
tuft of light gapes
dry ice
lost <forever?>
swimming in printmaking
absolute referent
-la mort