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← From needle-shaped pestilential glasses Octets (XI) ~ And I go out from space…
written by Osip Mandelstam 		→
From Moscow Notebooks. See also Poems. Translated from Russian by Dmitri Smirnov. In Russian: И я выхожу из пространства



XI


 
And I go out from space
Into the abandoned garden of values,
And pick off fake constancy
And self-consciousness of reasons.
And your, infinity, textbook
I read alone in my solitude —
The leafless, wild medical manual,
Assignment book of enormous roots.


November 1933, Moscow

© Dmitri Smirnov, translation. Can be reproduced if non-commercial.

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