Trial

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    Trial - by misunderstanding,
    Spines together - crevasse between.
    Look to side - step into exile,
    Hands like briars - limp at the seams.

    Through seams of nerves, joints and sinews
    Blood does not gush - it drips from pores,
    And not a man - a man's likeness
    And all in surplus - excess of nerves.

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    Heart ahead - through body the current flows,
    Eyes away - in darkness to look,
    Heat, and cold, and in ribs the arrows
    Spine on spine beat out a spark.

    Hands are touching - just like dry branches,
    It is time - to start the game must.
    Where eyes play, where the body's rejected,
    Where success and failure compare the cost.

    Like a sword's stroke - sharp eyes opening:
    To make prisoner and take away.
    Two lakes - light, two lakes of sorrows,
    To freeze - like a boa at prey.

    And smoothness, and depth, and silence -
    Play of crystals liquefied
    Sin original, warmth and light too...
    Understanding nonverbal - through the eyes.

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    Trial by misunderstanding,
    Spines - and if sometime
    To turn around in fit of delirium
    With landslide of feeling - eye to eye -

    But to cease in the blind enlightenment,
    Not to fall - only to sway,
    And to continue, moment to moment,
    And with lips to fall into lake.

    By Lubov Sokolovsky
    Translated from Russian by Ilya Shambat
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