Anton Yakovlev

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Adorable

I look at the raccoons from far away
remembering the minutes when you cared.
The rocks, the daylight, the buttermilk bay.
I look at the raccoons from far away.
Their rabies would have troubled you today.
You were so close; now you've disappeared.
I look at the raccoons from far away
remembering the minutes when you cared.

Born in Moscow, Russia, Anton Yakovlev moved to the United States in 1996. He studied filmmaking and poetry at Harvard University. His latest poetry collection is Ordinary Impalers (Aldrich Press, 2017). His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Hopkins Review, Prelude, Measure, and elsewhere. The Last Poet of the Village, a book of translations of poetry by Sergei Esenin, is forthcoming from Sensitive Skin Books in 2017. He has also written and directed several short films.