Translated by Max Nemtsov
the pre-war news
. . . in order to make room for the photographs, the old woman shortsightedly looks into the yard — Miklós Mészöly. Film
sees everything she’s supposed to see the god in her eyelid retractors straight and simple the way they write their secret police reports the way I picked up an old trace from the cut made with the reflection of the dried-up brook from menuhin’s cadences to nemuhin’s priluki and back the van with anticorrosive patches azaleas in april wisterias in may hydrangeas were sick after the rain season the military topography of an anatomical map
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a river bends around a house a rusty choke collar hangs on a tree a pregnant cat hides from the heat it laps from a spring not paying attention to a swan that swims/wanders around plucking grass out of hand instead of her 19th century violin kopatchinskaja has picked up hammers for clear dies irae by ustvolskaya and here like in the beginning of the silence there is the bustle of tanks through the train windows before the kid’s eyes a comics artist from vladivostok on her way to the railway station said that she’s not touched by anything apart from the reinterpretation of available folklore the engraving by alexandra patcamaniuk on the glass house a glass palm/branch grows like a chimney iznyat a viyse—iznyat videchise
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split up in two by rails the woods under the early april shower like a semi-melted light the gabetta’s viola the only visitors of the untranslatable café before it closes the shower in the woods bowing to the bonfire tests the tension of catgut strings one can be distracted like that until one sees a new armored vehicle the rain started in the second half of the woods and it is not known when it stops
like the baltic sea in december two or three chance phrases by gubaidulina as performed by sharon bezaly “i’m drowning” after the father from the raven’s end åkerblom’s schubert repeats “i’m drowning” like a fish escaping a beak like the baltic sea in december the sailing ship owner looks like melville who captured the silence of the sea melville in front of patricia franchini the pre-war news from the shore two or three by chance you get together with cigarettes and details for the broken desalinator