"SPRING SCENE IN A BYELORUSIAN BOGLAND"

 sodden logs melt into bogs

vernal mists and thawing swamps

molasses and fenland in rasputitsa

the corpse of a beautiful naiad
decomposes into the sump of the ground
clasping the sceptre of the usurper
as poison ivy wreaths her decayed head

the ochre blood stinks sour

an aphotic hue of dead human skin

a palette of natural colors grotesque :
a solitary death in the Byelorusian boglands