Issue 147

Winter & Spring 2015

Image from Situation 7

Poetry Shamshad Abdullaev Poetry Shamshad Abdullaev

Edge of Town, A Dream

Translated from Russian by Alex Cigale


And so, he declared, the Arno, plague of mirrors, another –
river of suicides. You almost hallucinate. The air
and we in it, wedged in the beeswax of the clay-built corners. The streets’
recesses hemorrhage with summer light. So many

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In the Midst

Translated from Russian by Alex Cigale


To extinguish the lamp and the bright words.
The vase stares flush against its own bottom.
At the foot of the bed jazz flares up,
opening a crack

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More About the Same

Translated from Russian by Alex Cigale


In old age (so think thirty year olds) there is beauty.
Crystals of sugar melting – the city
lights are extinguished. Resignation,
the road slows down departing into the muggy flourlike fog

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