Insect dream landscape

Traces exhibition, Museum of Nonconformist Art
Saint Petersburg 2024

Paintings and poetry

Insect dream landscape

Dreams from inside a mushroom
petal dreams, dream leaves
dreams of wet wood and tunnels
of earth mounds that crumble, suddenly

Dreams of eggs that must be hidden from sight,
of seeing the light but you’re not ready yet to emerge

Dreams of frog feet
a larva’s nightmare —
a wasp inhales it twitches,
and drills tiny holes

into this collective dreaming

so that now it can seep through
porous autumn logs
back into the earth
that has already fallen asleep

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A tiny worm wanders

A tiny worm wanders
close to the edge, sometimes
carves a path, turns this leaf
into a map
and so,
we remember her.