«People, years and nations / run away forever / like a flowing river. / In nature’s supple mirror / we’re the fish, / dark’s ghosts are gods, / and the constellations / knot night’s net.»
«A police station’s a fine place: / it’s where the State and I have trysts. / It’s where the State reminds me / that it still exists.»
«I, a butterfly that has flown / into the room of human life, / must leave the handwriting of my dust / like a prisoner’s signature / over the stern windows, / across fate’s strict panes. / The wallpaper of human life / is grey and sad. / And there is the windows’ / transparen...»
«Moon above the river drifted, / Fireflies glimmered on the bank, / Here a wreath to head I lifted, / Drowning, ’neath the waters sank. Kiev whitens, Dnieper skirts, / By the Dnieper mermaid’s singing. / From her scales a glitter flirts… / Sorrow from me maybe wringing — Eyes ha...»