(to Laurence Weisberg)

Indecipherable vertigo lucid
my envoy to nothing
ups and downs everywhere
within equanimity
elemental fluencies
by means of a faceless evanescence
true encounters
which hyphenate the world

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(to Paul Celan)

Whorish othertime and eternity
babelled around the edges
this unfettered mind
cloister of a phantom withdrawal
I remember her with
the dark passionflower in her hand,
absorbed in contemplation, an
abstract perceiver of the world

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Rus Khomutoff is a neo surrealist language poet based in Brooklyn, NY. His poetry has appeared in Erbacce, Poethead, Occulum, Former People and Burning House Press. Last year he published an ebook called Immaculate Days.