(Older Central Asian man, bald, standing in front of a Christmas tree, in a red shirt holding up a book)

SINGING DUST

(Dedicated to Ayo Ayoola-Amale) 

There is a shadow between us, 

imposing, to say the least, 

divining her intentions. 

She turned her head to the right, 

to the left, and back, searching for us: 

No, she didn’t find us. 

We are the singing stardust above her. 

On the other side of the shadows 

are your thoughts and mine, 

with this one too. 

They float, fall, spin, 

like snowflakes in an unstable 

space of vibrations, 

galaxies burning in myriads, 

each eternity of one 

evanescently small moment. 

We are not here. Or we are. It doesn’t matter. 

The shadow cannot separate our thoughts. 

 

Eldar Akhadov is the author of 72 published books of prose and poetry in Russian, English, Spanish, and Serbian, a member of the Writers’ Union of Russia, an honorary member of the Writers’ Union of Azerbaijan, a member of the international PEN Club, co-chairman of the Literary Council of the Eurasian Peoples’ Assembly. Winner of the “Silver Pen of Rus'”, “For the Benefit of the World”, the State Prize of the Governor of the YNAO, the Gratitude of the Legislative Assembly of the YNAO, the Certificate of Honor of the Ministry of Culture of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, silver medals of the IV All-Russian Literary Festival of Festivals and the IV Literary Festival of Festivals of Eurasia …, More detailed information about the author can be found in electronic Wikipedias in Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Catalan, Portuguese, Russian and Czech