And I go out from space

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Translated from Russian by Dmitri Smirnov. In Russian: И я выхожу из пространства (Мандельштам)

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XI

And I go out from space
Into the abandoned garden of values,
And pick off fake constancy
And self-consciousness of reasons.
And your, infinity, textbook
I read alone in my solitude —
The leafless, wild medical manual,
Assignment book of enormous roots.

November 1933, Moscow

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© Dmitri Smirnov, Translation. Can be reproduced if non commercial.