[from talk] Poem by Ulrike Almut Sandig

this draft from talk: tangled syllables
at the bottom of lungs, the delicate limbs
of serifs on tongues, the smell of damp
paper. tell me about eurasia, about the clean
CUT of the mountain range in our frozen
CENTER, urals, and about what follows,
this bird destination, where huts are built
from corrugated tin and tar, styrofoam, where semi-
somnolent rats devour stories, and rivers
are filthy with flowers and flesh, where they
speak and constantly drink tea, where they greet and
die the one is always the one: listen

Translated by Bradley Schmidt