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Keith Sands @keithsands.bsky.social

Osip Mandelstam (my translation, in 'Unknown Soldier' Equipage 2019). #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

When the goldfinch, in air's sweet bread, suddenly trembles, heart-spilt, the scholar's cloak is peppered with spite, but the cap grows beauty-black. Perch slanders, ledge slanders, the cage of a hundred spokes slanders - everything is inside-out, and there's a forest Salamanca for clever wayward birds.
jul 6, 2025, 5:35 pm • 7 1

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