Music for the Dead and Resurrected by Valzhyna Mort

Author:Valzhyna Mort
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Guest

Here, where I’m dying, in a white house by a blue harbor.

—Maxim Bakhdanovich

Come in, Maxim! This is Minsk

choked under a pillow of clouds.

Here you are: a statue in a heavy coat.

Here all monuments wear coats.

Not wool, but linden bark coats,

with bee-fur collars.

In their pockets monuments keep belts.

And under collars monuments have necks.

In winter, shadows insulate the walls.

Windows and cracks are plucked with shadows.

In museums, coats and nooses

on display. And water is pickle juice.

Come in, Maxim, apartment blocks

are wrapped in ammunition staircases,

and window-medals sparkle through the night.

Every building here is a kind of bust,

an elevator ascends like vomit.

For furniture there is a stump.

Come in, Maxim, come flying!

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