The variety of animals, said Khlebnikov,
derives from their ability
to see God in different ways.
If the universe, said Hawkins,
were different, we’d simply
not notice it.
From Chanel to Escape (a gorgeous
glossy journal alluded to them)
each year death has another smell.
There are people, writers,
who have written everything down,
noughts-and-crosses
instead of digital facsimiles
Translated by Daniel Weissbort