New York By Valzhyna Mort

New York By Valzhyna Mort Translated by Franz Wright new york, madame, is a monument to a city it is TA-DA a gigantic pike whose scales bristled up stunned and what used to be just smoke found a fire that gave it birth champagne foam melted into metal glass rivers flowing upwards and things you won't tell to a priest you reveal to a cabdriver even time is sold out when to the public's "wow" and "shhh" out of a black top hat a tailed magician is pulling new york out by the ears of skyscrapers