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Poetry

The Room Remembers Flight

The blinding wonder shed its steel attireAnd, soundless, flares and surges skyward-bound.I do not hold it.…

by Anastasia Korbet October 17, 2026

Poetry

A Child's Shoulders

An anxious shadow crawls in, room by room,I clench my teeth: how to hide you from…

by Anastasia Korbet September 18, 2026

An empty grey room with a tall window and a closed door; a band of sunlight lies across the floor

Essays

The Seam

Also published in English.“The Seam” was published in Asymptote.[Read the full English version →]

by Anastasia Korbet September 8, 2026

Poetry

Shedding Words

He was worn out by clamour and by words, by alien syllables drained of knowing,by memory…

by Anastasia Korbet August 30, 2026

Poetry

The Record Ends

"My immortality is a form of absolute emptiness.I am tired of being the one who records…

by Anastasia Korbet August 26, 2026

Poetry

Sutura

Slowly the sun floods the room laid open,Inner seam.Lightly the air sways mint beyond the windows,Blood…

by Anastasia Korbet August 6, 2026

Prose

Fragmentum II

A ray shreds the windowpane burns the pupil down to a dead point while under the…

by Anastasia Korbet July 28, 2026

Poetry

False Bottom

I force a dense clot through the narrow opening.Mercilessly I crush.Ceaselessly I press.I pump a scorching…

by Anastasia Korbet July 24, 2026

Poetry

Renunciation

I I tore my throat raw, hurling despair into the cracked heights, which repaid every exhalation…

by Anastasia Korbet July 18, 2026

Poetry

Choke

I pour without ceasing into yourblind bottomlessness the thickand scalding from the very gutfinding neither bottom…

by Anastasia Korbet July 16, 2026

Poetry

Non-thought

The mind surrendered: melted the metal, and this shaft rolled down beneath the ribs.A heavy stone,…

by Anastasia Korbet July 7, 2026

Letters

You Have Not Abandoned Me

god, god. I will not ask why You have forsaken me. You have not abandoned me.…

by Anastasia Korbet July 2, 2026

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