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Contour part three


   


The metaphor is as old and precise as the devil. I want to be the text, you want to be the image. Fucking gender.
You don’t want them to look at you. I am trying to be unreadable. Fucking gender.
One day we will be like angels. Composed of a single contour.
In the meantime, I watch––how the ink fills in your body.


Igor Gulin is a Moscow-based poet, literary critic, and cultural historian.