Gennadiy Aygi

1934 - 2006 / Chuvashia,

Returning to Baudelaire

the master
as though
somewhere
of apparentness:

a face
like God's—in the ashes—grasped:

of the not-'I' of the mind
crackling—with a flame! . . . —

into the countenance of this wind
the bright light of unpeopledness

1967
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