DAY OF CRYSTAL KNIVES

a wordcinema
by AZsacra ZARATHUSTRA
English translation by AIDar ISMAGILOV



take away from them
your own
death


nothing of
unborn
child


the sound of
wiping
the mirror


day of
crystal
knives


to shutter paradise
with speck of
Dao


to shutter hell
with little hair of
De


to flow as
a drop from
the leaf


to kill with
“splash
in silence”


the strategy
of snowflake
battles


ritual of
getting sink wolf's
teeth into


the dew
rushes about
in rage


who can
thrust with
the petal?


to kill, to be
in Nothing
aren’t!


the thrill of butterfly
is more pure than
the courage of tiger


the rat opens
its third
eye


interlacing of the tails
of scattered
lizards


grains of sand
are overfilled with
precipice


reflection of the tiger
breaks outside of
mirror


the Great War of
germinating
grains


the hurricane
has sheltered
the ear


triumph of
defeated
tears