and while its shadows thrashed on stone
it would one day be,
fucked, flicker-lit, like you, like me.
Christian WimanChristian Wiman's most recent book is Every Riven Thing (FSG). His translations of Osip Mandelstam, Stolen Air, will be published by Ecco in March. He edits Poetry magazine.
Photo courtesy of Danielle Chapman.
Christian WimanChristian Wiman's most recent book is Every Riven Thing (FSG). His translations of Osip Mandelstam, Stolen Air, will be published by Ecco in March. He edits Poetry magazine. Photo courtesy of Danielle Chapman.