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Presenting selected poems from Vasiliy Karasjov’s Tri Knigi (‘Three Books’):
Three Books
pp. 19, 22, 68 (180 pages)
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Three Books
selected poems
p.19
Philosopher officer not of his own life
but of feasts and executions
Poor Desiderata knows the eldorado of
excised books
Certain also of the Other secrets
hidden knowledge
Poor Dyrniki Deaf Germans bone knowledge
Out of history and out of her
my your names shadow scripts before blooming
Bearing lead thorns I remember far from
dawn imperceptibly flesh eyes pitch hair
like grass snake pearl chrysolite pearl
harvesting mice and birds already soaring
p.22
L’.
Forest
Fragment of a place away outwith beyond blizzard buggered roads night falls
too close but there’s pragatorte on the table
ale.
p.68
A.K.
As a knife’s haven
Duna humbled hulled by black clouds
Snaking shore frozen pennants
pendulums stilled sea swallows
soaring
Duna rises from her knees and once more kyar
and again the world is
quiet
© Vasiliy Karasjov 2020, translation Bryn Roberts 2022
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