Fishermen went out to sea
Fisherwomen ran after them
A boy is standing in the doorway
With a toy ship
His eyes have dried up
Deep inside them
The silhouettes of skeletons
Tangled in anchors
A Little Picture
Aigerim Tazhi, tr. from the Russian by J. Kates
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Aigerim Tazhi was born in the western Kazakh city of Aktobe in 1981. She is a graduate of the Aktyubinsk (Zhubanov) State University. She has received numerous literary prizes and lives in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
J. Kates is a poet and literary translator who lives in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire.