Transitions №3

Author: Tatiana Danilyants

Translated by Mark Wingrave

SIMPLY: A REMINDER

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always the same things unsettle me
dying
the loss of close ones
losing friends
in a word
intransigence

waking at night
the fine webs of relations come to mind
their treacherous subtlety
transparency
ri-ppl-ing

you could
say it’s being allergic to life
though it feels more like
being allergic to death

and what if
we change our perspective
the centre of gravity
?
perhaps
it would help

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how to harness time
the way a thought had been

to freeze in London
in the mirrored rain
seeing oneself

caught on the border in between
summerfall
in a London
space
of soft boneless rain

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autumn 2007
has its own specificities
caught in London
stretching a hand
rain

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not wanting anything
other than a reminder

SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH MOSCOW

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and it enters here
in the terracotta earth
I feel at a loss
as if everything is less acceptable
than I would like it to be but
the pigeons
white and rust
flickering in memory
there is so much light
surely
enough for all
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and these pigeons
pacing around
are so strange
they remind me
of their capacity to fill
the world over
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a plenitude of air and light
Thank You
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