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Ethanopium.

“I know scarcely any other Russian poet of his generation who was in time, thought with and out of this time, thought it through to its end, in each of its moments, in its issues and happenings, in the words that faced tissues and happenings and were to stand for them, at once open and hermetic,” Paul [Celan] wrote to Mandelstam’s publisher, Gleb Struve via

Wreck.

futurity poorly sited
& assassination dowry
i rose on cicala tides
my combat rig ever wordy

wisdom of starry teals
where the century sleeper slept
into such tomes i’d steal
as are bound in woofus pelts

Malfunction.