Margeaux Walter © 2021
by A. Molotkov
Firm Thoughts in a Loose Grip
Fog with its long fingers, the painfully unsmiling sky.
Unfathomable strangers, their stark words, splendid eyes—a propensity for injury, love in expiration.
A forgotten light just around the corner lures me, opens me, turns me into a question that demands an answer.
And the melody? It’s already playing, isn’t it? This accidental life, these soft ruins.
I may be dead, but I’m not silent.
A. Molotkov’s fourth poetry collection, Future Symptoms, is forthcoming from The Word Works in 2022. His memoir, A Broken Russia Inside Me about growing up in the USSR and making a new life in America, is due out from Propertius. He co-edits The Inflectionist Review.