Outskirts: Winter without People - Gennady Aygi

this shining
of light from from the world
along the revetment (o empty malleability
of dead resonance! —

o of smooth-free
pure soul-lessness
near the heights!) —

even — flowering
(with the juices
of time) —

along the lifeless
gleam
of faux-modern buildings! —

this
shining:
blood —

the empty-colorless — cold! — soul
of cold — so without-breath-alive-emphatically-stern
clear
high
worthy

of itself

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Gennady Aygi (1934 - 2006) Russia
Translated by Sarah Valentine
Source: Diode