SurVision Magazine
An
international online magazine that
publishes Surrealist poetry
in English.
Issue Eight
ALEX AVERBUCH
Three Untitled Poems
1.
a billable body can almost afford
the luxury of death
but you refuse to give up your splendour
grandstanding in the shadows
of a combusting remnant
until the inconceivable is burned out
everyone is drawn to the crater of absence
full of you
huddled into a root
2.
the testimony of the fourth person
an ileal knot of guilt
who boarded
barges loaded with sin
row brothers higher faster
i'll spur you
on with the raw current
and the throaty bait
and the crackling bush
3.
the threads of desire
feel nice
after a battle
the engulfing fire
senses spoils
the hand
of hasty justice
reels up
pleasure
the sky
has drawn closer
the sacrifice
and he cut
my prison term short
Translated from the Russian by Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler
Alex Averbuch is a native of Novoaidar, Luhansk region, Ukraine (b. 1985), a bilingual
(Ukrainian/Russian) poet, translator, and literary scholar. His poetry, both original and translated, has been published in various literary journals and anthologies. He is the author of two collections of poetry.
