The car floated up and flew through the snow-laden trees.
Later that night when I was coming back by train from that place
whose name I first heard over the telephone
I pressed my wet feet to the heater, in which dust was being burned.
Flakes were borne onto the deserted train station and decommissioned cisterns.
Darkness and lost scattered light that pressed inside the stomach
were interrupted by the deafening express train to Turnov like a fiery hand
and in the last window a phantom, tearing off its face.
Milan Děžinský is a Czech poet and translator. An English translation of his selected poems, Gravitation, will be published next year. (July 2025)
Nathan Fields is a translator who lives in Prague and teaches English at the Academy of Fine Arts. (July 2025)
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