Search for me in transparent spring light,
I’m like wings, imperceptibly close,
I’m a sigh, I’m a sound, a sunbeam inside,
but I’m lighter than it: it is here, and I was.
There’s no parting between us, dear friend!
Hear me now, I’m here. I am traced
by your living and shivering hand
that has stretched through the day’s molten blaze.
So slow down. As if accidentally,
shut your eyes. And I’ll strain all the same —
on your fingertips, shaking so gently,
maybe then I will flare up as a flame…
Ищи меня в сквозном весеннем свете.
Я весь — как взмах неощутимых крыл,
Я звук, я вздох, я зайчик на паркете,
Я легче зайчика: он — вот, он есть, я был.
Но, вечный друг, меж нами нет разлуки!
Услышь, я здесь. Касаются меня
Твои живые, трепетные руки,
Простертые в текучий пламень дня.
Помедли так. Закрой, как бы случайно,
Глаза. Еще одно усилье для меня —
И на концах дрожащих пальцев, тайно,
Быть может, вспыхну кисточкой огня.
«Upon the cobbles / of my foot-clobbered soul, / the steps of loonies / twine their grinding rhymes. / Where the towns / are hung / and in the nooses of clouds / the crooked necks of towers / are wrung, / I start to cry / because / by the crossroads / the cops are crucified.»
«Please Listen! / If stars are lit, / it is something / that somebody needs? / Someone wants them / To be and to last, / Even calls them pearls, those specs of spit. / And suffocating / In the blizzards of midday dust, / He bursts in on God, / afraid it's too late to s...»
«I am back in my city, dear to me like my tears / Like small veins, swollen glands of my infancy years. You have come here, now go ahead in one gulp / Down the fish-oil of Leningrad’s river lights lamps Can you make out this day of December that’s marred / By the egg-yolk stirred into the...»
«We exist out of touch with the land underneath / Our words from ten paces conceal our grief / Just the Kremlin's highlander's voice's present. / The soul crusher and slayer of peasants (Version. / Where's enough for a half talk words landed, / They'll remind of the Kremlin's highlander.)...»