Author Archives: Philip Nikolayev
Stranger Things Have Happened
“The glory of vocabulary/The florist and the greenery/The allegory of the gory/And the forested scenery/With everything else clean gone/Except for the one/The ocean and its froth/The continental shelf/The path forth and the earth/The well of wealth the self.”—Philip Nikolayev The Art of Forgetting By Philip Nikolayev “The grey Spring of asphodels/is still far off and transparent./Perhaps […]
Both Testaments: Four Poems for The Providential Reader
“But to remember something we need to forget/something, a different truth. My grandmother/believed that if you dab any convenient spot on your body/with iodine daily/it will help you keep your memory in old age./Head of the Marxism-Leninism chair/at the Ivanovo Energy Institute,/where she taught philosophy and scientific atheism,/she was the kindest soul, loved and spoiled […]