Photo of Osip Mandelstam made by the NKVD after his arrest. How does Osip Mandelstam make compression carry distance, so that a line stores force like a drawn bow before releasing its charge into image? Beside the Russian text I…
What burden rests in Abaris’ hand when Herodotus grants him an arrow, a road about the earth, a fast carried to its furthest pitch? Does the object keep the bite of a weapon, settle into a pilgrim’s staff, speak as…
A limestone abdomen tightens beneath a carved rib cage; the navel sinks into a hard cup, the chest turns off its axis, the left knee bites the pedimental floor. What form of self comes forward when a hero folds around…
