{"id":14904,"date":"2023-09-15T08:12:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T06:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=14904"},"modified":"2023-09-16T20:15:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T18:15:22","slug":"poem-by-dmitry-blizniuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=14904","title":{"rendered":"poem by Dmitry Blizniuk"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Ukraine, Kharkov<\/em><\/p>\n

translated from Russian by Sergey Gerasimov<\/p>\n

A Pair of Opening Scissors <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Like a scorpion that hears through the night<\/p>\n

the velvet steps of a caravan far, far away,<\/p>\n

I hear you \u2013<\/p>\n

I hear you entering the future without me.<\/p>\n

You disappear into the labyrinths between the walls of water of the parted sea,<\/p>\n

into blue and green streets of rearing waves.<\/p>\n

Skyscrapers of water hang over you;<\/p>\n

giant crystal columns boil<\/p>\n

full of restless fish and sleepy drowned ships.<\/p>\n

You go away from me, into the perspective of Monet’s paintings.<\/p>\n

You beckon me to come, silently,<\/p>\n

but the paintings are covered with purple shawls of lies.<\/p>\n

We use to love each other,<\/p>\n

used to be an alloy of two happy faces, of lips and eyes.<\/p>\n

Two relaxed sculptures in love.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

People say, there is nothing new in the world,<\/p>\n

everything has already happened,<\/p>\n

so life is handed to us on a plate, like to millionaires’ kids.<\/p>\n

We are released into the present: sentient piranhas<\/p>\n

released into a spiral, anti-glass aquarium<\/p>\n

with a one-way current,<\/p>\n

and when turning a bend,<\/p>\n

we can brush against our past, against our own reflection,<\/p>\n

make eye contact with our own silvery twin\u2026<\/p>\n

Look, fractured, gnawed skeletons of camels<\/p>\n

show up white on the beautiful sand, on the bottom of time,<\/p>\n

and all the clock dials are empty.<\/p>\n

Does it mean that our caravan didn’t reach the destination?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

We are growing apart in time like a pair of opening scissors.<\/p>\n

Slowly like hair, their blades are growing longer.<\/p>\n

We’ve already lost each other.<\/p>\n

We’ve chosen different streets in the Venice of time.<\/p>\n

But I don’t regret. I’m as calm as a king<\/p>\n

in the morning of his execution: imperturbably,<\/p>\n

he wipes his neck with a handkerchief soaked in vinegar and water,<\/p>\n

in his mistress’s tears (her pale hands are trembling like wax orchids<\/p>\n

or tiny electric drills.)<\/p>\n

I hear you throbbing in the spider web of time\u00a0 –<\/p>\n

I’m always with you, just as you are always with me.<\/p>\n

And, at the same time \u2013 never, nowhere, with no one.<\/p>\n

It’s the quantum physics of human relationships.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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