Rob Myatt 🍉

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Translator, writer. DE, DA, PL, RU, SV, NO, LU>EN. He/they 🌹 Winner: Goethe-Institut Award 2023 https://polyglotliterature.co.uk/samples/ Previous dabbler in Burmese, Czech, Indonesian. Current dabbler in Mongolian, Eastern Armenian, Finnish, Farsi.

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THE CASE OF THE FLYING GIRL

lazy is the drooping lid
solitary is the drooping lid
too short the lace curtain over one window
once more i saw someone (un)desired
once more into the flat blew a cautionary
air
once more i fell in love

PEN Translates is now open

shout, shout, and shout again. Accuse the Second Corps of anything and everything that comes to mind—savage intentions, fascism, brigandry and speculation, immorality and irreligiousness, misappropriating the wealth of the Fatherland

Out here, I dream. In the city, my sleep was empty, dark-grey, big. In the early hours, when the stuff stopped working, it became light-grey and heavy. But now, I am here.