SurVision Magazine / Yuri Milorava

Untitled 1

a secret screw
like pink sponginess
flowers
down below
turns of the road
noise
buffaloes by the water
a trail of coal and salt
a multitude of glass columns

Untitled 2

a motorway
with stacks of cracked
unwashed
—like small children in the vale—
and twisted
global
faces

Untitled 3

screwed in
shifted
inside the monogram of reproach
amid the noise
a concealed
message-door

Translated from the Russian by Anatoly Kudryavitsky

Yuri Milorava was born in 1952 in Tbilisi, Georgia. A graduate of Tbilisi University for Foreign Languages, he lived in Moscow in the 1990s, and now is living in Chicago, USA. Since 1980s his poems appeared in émigré and Russian periodicals, e.g. in The Continent, Chernovik and Khreschatyk, and later in The Anthology of Russian Vers Libre (1991). He has published two collections of his poems, Instead (1996) and Distaff Angel (2003), as well as his memoir about Victor Shklovsky. He has also translated French and Georgian poetry into Russian.

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An international online magazine that publishes Surrealist poetry in English. Issue Two YURI MILORAVA Untitled 1 a secret screw like pink sponginess flowers down below turns of the road noise buffaloes by the water a trail of coal and salt a multitude of glass columns Untitled 2 a motorway with stacks of cracked unwashed —like small children in the vale— and twisted global faces Untitled 3 screwed in shifted inside the monogram of reproach amid the noise a concealed message-door Translated from the Russian by Anatoly Kudryavitsky Yuri Milorava was born in 1952 in Tbilisi, Georgia. A graduate of Tbilisi University for Foreign Languages, he lived in Moscow in the 1990s, and now is living in Chicago, USA. Since 1980s his poems appeared in émigré and Russian periodicals, e.g. in The Continent, Chernovik and Khreschatyk, and later in The Anthology of Russian Vers Libre (1991). He has published two collections of his poems, Instead (1996) and Distaff Angel (2003), as well as his memoir about Victor Shklovsky. He has also translated French and Georgian poetry into Russian.
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