fantod of the opera

"Indeed, from reading the majority of these poems either in Russian or in English one is more likely to conclude that most of the tenets of Acmeism had been devised for the express purpose of being ignored by Mandelstam." --Clarence Brown, Osip Mandelstam Selected Poems (tr Brown & Merwin, 1973)

I Come From Nowhere.

once in
carillon was
a song · whenever rang
a phone not for me the same song
of loss