#diana anphimiadi

[bones-ivy-breath]

Birth Certificate by Diana Anphimiadi (tr. Natalia Bukia-Peters, Brown Girls Write)

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[aescheretalks]

გული – ქრისტესისხლას ბუჩქია,

ხმება.

ეჰ, ღირდეს მაინც – ღამით კისერს ჰკიდია ბეწვით

Guli – krist’esiskhlas buchkia, khmeba. Eh, ghirdes maints – ghamit k’isers hk’idia bets’vit

My heart is a celandine, parched. My love, can it be worth it? At night my head hangs from my neck by a single hair

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[finita--la--commedia]

Strange how I accustomed the word ‘tranquility’ to me. I drew it on like a glove. I arranged it like a scarf. I made my bed on it And plumped up my wishes. I also tamed the sixty-watt lamp. I encircled my tent with a moat of pain And I tethered the wolf of fear near its entrance. Strange how I became accustomed to the word 'tranquillity’. And yet I sleep in an anxious birch tree With my eyes wide open. Strange how I accustomed the word 'tranquility’ to me.

Diana Anphimiadi, “Tranquility”, translated from Georgian by Natalia Bukia-Peters

#Georgian poet #poetry #quotes #poetry in translation

[finita-la-commedia]

What is a woman ? Two breasts, one womb. On these dusty roads where I drag myself like the hem of a dress, nothing more – just a few beats in a line of this poem.

Diana Anphimiadi, from “Helen Of Troy”, translated from Georgian by Jean Sprackland

#Georgian poetry #Georgian poet #poetry

[bones-ivy-breath]

Birth Certificate by Diana Anphimiadi (tr. Natalia Bukia-Peters, Brown Girls Write)

#quote #birth certificate #diana anphimiadi #natalia bukia peters #brown girls write #typography #aesthetic #literature #poetry #dark academia #light academia #georgian literature #georgian poetry #athena #greek mythology

[bones-ivy-breath]

Birth Certificate by Diana Anphimiadi (tr. Natalia Bukia-Peters, Brown Girls Write)

#quote #birth certificate #diana anphimiadi #natalia bukia peters #brown girls write #typography #aesthetic #literature #poetry #dark academia #light academia #romantic academia #georgian literature #georgian poetry #on writing

[finita--la--commedia]

How easy it is to love you - in other words, to seal my lips… To love you means to protect you from my kiss.                                                                                                                         How easy it is to love you - in each pore of my skin; to hatch the warm chrysalis in each cell of the honeycomb. Touch, smell, memory, habit, familiarity - to give wings to them all, to give you the right to be with another.

Diana Anphimiadi, from “May Honey”, translated from Georgian by Natalia Bukia-Peters

#Georgian poet #poetry #quotes #poetry in translation

[finita-la-commedia]

What kind of word is *because* ? It’s like that rubber ball you have to squeeze between your teeth when they cut open your stomach with questions, no anaesthetic.

Diana Anphimiadi , from “Because”, translated from Georgian by Jean Sprackland

#Georgian poet #poetry