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Larissa Shmailo

He follows her with his voice; she sees him with her skin,
and drinks him with her hands, in the storm touch which
will crush his chest against her breast. The poppies pour

their juice in the red rain which will crack, in time, all o-
ther things. She drinks him with her hands. He follows
with her breast. She sees him with his chest, in this bo-

dy not her own, but which, in the night, is hers. Like the
heat that swells all things, she sings the night with him.
He follows her with his voice; she sees him with her skin.

Larissa Shmailo has been or will soon be published in Fulcrum, Rattapallax, Big Bridge, Drunken  Boat, Naropa’s We, and many other publications. Her popular CD, The No-Net World, has been heard on radio stations across the U.S. and the U.K. Larissa translated the Russian Futurist opera Victory over the Sun by A. Kruchenych; a DVD of the original English-language production is part of the collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum, and the Hirsshorn Museum of the Smithsonian Institute.  She recently contributed translations to the new anthology Contemporary Russian Poetry published by Dalkey Archive Press. Larissa is a director of TWiN Poetry, an informal collective of over 7,000 audio poets and their listeners, and a public coordinator for the acclaimed annual Fulcrum. Forthcoming in 2008 are a new chapbook, A Cure for Suicide from Cervena Barva Press, and a new CD, Exorcism (SongCrew 2008). Larissa is listed in the Poetry Kit Who’s Who in poetry.