Ramil Niyazov-Adyljan is a Kazakh of Uyghur origin. He writes poetry and studies contemporary art, postcolonial studies, queer Sufism, and the steppe. He is originally from Almaty, Kazakhstan, but is currently a student at St. Petersburg State University in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He is also a member of krёlex zentre and editor of Polutona.
a serbian migrant worker steps out
into the white
like the mediterranean sea
like the bitter turkish tobacco-covered russian earth where
no one of his yet lies
like the white tsar’s yatag…
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