Meat

Translated by Leo Shtutin; Published in Open Doors Review and Poetry Special of Chewers by Masticadores

Meat

butcher cleft

scarlet

blood-brim

slaughter-warm

live-fine-filamentous

Butcher-executioner

solemn air

razor-sharp blade

surgical cut

disassemble breathing flesh

Customer

blood orgy witness

breath bate anticipate

sink teeth

hunk juice underdone

Queue

eyes rivet all

torment quiver

still-warm slab

butcher-shop execution rite

another witness furtive

Me

boy of five

tiptoe stretch counter

chin uptilt transfix

dream

be butcher

dream

blade sink

fragile tender flank

meat alone rite no part

no sacrificial role

suffer not dream not transfix not

meat long dead

feel not.