Afanasy Fet
- At a fireplace, by Vyacheslav Chistyakov
(At dusk a dying out coal...) - By The Fireplace, by Boris Dralyuk
(The embers fade. A lucid flame...)
«I call you to try with a sword / To touch the shirt. / It’s away. / Say with the sword: the King is naked. / What we’ve done with fuzz of breath / I call you to do with iron.»
«To snow you / With silver of powder. / To give you a big broom, / The right to chase winter — / To give you.»
«The Neva-river knows many Last Supper eyes. / Yesterday here the blood of saviors housled / With the body of north, paving-stone. / Here’s caroled the love of pages ablaze. / It’s with ash of the love that the evening’s so black / Both of workmen and pale librarians. / Stream is fl...»
«Lice stupidly prayed godding me, / Every morning they crawled through my clothes, / Every morning I killed them, — / Listen to their cracks, — / But they came again like quietly confident surf. The white godlike marrow of mine / I gave, Russia, you: / Be Khlebnikov, be my mind. / ...»