Pieter Claesz, Still Life with Peacock Pie, 1627.
of plume and feathered fame
A poem by Gavrilla Derzhavin, translated from Russian by John Hamel and Peter Orte.
Max Klinger, Adam from Eva und die Zukunft (Rad.-Werk III), 1898, public domain.
my lips, and all you’d loved them for
Three poems by Lou Andreas-Salomé, translated by Sofija Popovska
Claude Monet, Water Lilies, Setting Sun, 1907.
time naive and omnivorous
Three poems by Gleb Shulpyakov, translated by Christopher Mattison
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Plate 21 from The Disasters of War (Los Desastres de la Guerra): It will be the same. (Será lo mismo.), ca. 1810. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“In the streets of Viy-possessed Kyiv…”
A poem by Osip Mandelstam from The Voronezh Notebooks, translated by John High and Matvei Yankelevich
Vincent Van Gogh, Shoes, 1988. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
nothing matters except having clean hands
A poem by Aleksey Porvin, translated from Russian by Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler
John Martin, Illustration for Paradise Lost, Book II Line I, 1827
diabolical laughter off‑stage
Four poems by Roman Osminkin, translated from Russian by Helena Kernan
Mark Wingrave, Opening and Closing, 2021
a forest-city overruns the parquet floor
Two poems by Evgenia Rits, translated from Russian by Mark Wingrave
Christiane Baumgartner, White Noise, 2013
the tumbling avalanche of patterns, turn around
Three poems by Stanislava Mogileva, translated from Russian by Josephine von Zitzewitz
Gabriele Münter, Interior (Das Interieur), 1908
to be late for one’s flight
A poem by Liliya Gazizova, translated from Russian by Nina Kossman