Anastasia Afanasieva

 That’s my home. 

There was a bridge here

Now there isn’t. 

 

Where there was once a pass, 

now there’s a boundary. 

 

We live here,

 on the boundary. 

 

In the devil’s belly, 

that’s where. 

 

 Anastasia Afanasieva 

Translated by Olga Livshin and Andrew Janco