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PERSONAL

by Anfisa Osinnik

My hemispherical world,
feminine,
left-handed,
between complexes of filth
and queen.
And your right-handed world,
and your global
oedipal mind ...

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With Eve's putrefaction,
with Eve's depravity
Eve's apple becomes
the sapphire-colored
hermaphrodite flower,
the impossible
flower ...

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translated from the Russian of Anfisa Osinnik (b.1957) by Johannes Beilharz