AUTHOR’S ANNOTATIONS
These are excerpts from the author’s manuscript Around a Word, which is a collection of cyclic verse that presupposes a poem having no beginning or end and working in both rhyme and prose.
BIOGRAPHY
Rick K. Reut was born in 1984. He studied philosophy at EHU in Minsk, Belarus, and Vilnius, Lithuania, and literature at SPSU in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Since graduating, he has worked mostly as a translator and a tutor of English as a foreign language.
(BEDROOM DOOR)
…left you in the past.
You lie on the floor.
Gathering dust,
the bedroom door
opens. But no
one wants to come in –
except a cold wind.
Someone you know…
(IN THE DISTANCE)
…while it changes like
a woman. Another rain-
coat hangs on the skyline,
dripping down the drain.
Colors seem to collide
in the distance between
two words you try to hide
from. Somebody is seen
coming in a long, dark
gown that covers the back
of what looks like a park
alley painted black
and blue. Red lanterns light
up the face of the night…
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