tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66788918483416049702024-03-13T10:16:39.190-04:00Lev Loseff Лев ЛосевLoseffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11702582459122996630noreply@blogger.comBlogger360125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6678891848341604970.post-24858381241547956512019-12-09T09:52:00.001-05:002019-12-09T10:20:01.517-05:00Not all that nippy now, tiny bare bodies... / Мышек не слишком проворные тушки...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hhOcHXrz2hM/Xe5fTgOT-FI/AAAAAAAAY5c/xZFv4wMKOrYZx4XlkT-kfJ0WzvNPIpbUACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/vine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="410" data-original-width="612" height="267" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hhOcHXrz2hM/Xe5fTgOT-FI/AAAAAAAAY5c/xZFv4wMKOrYZx4XlkT-kfJ0WzvNPIpbUACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/vine.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><br /></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">A citation is a cicada.</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Mandelshtam</span></i></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Not all that nippy now, tiny bare bodies,</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">mice lurk in grass turning brown.</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Bones of a rusted fold-up bedstead</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">on an overgrown pathway, thrown down.</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Tough and twining, something has run through</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">this ownerless skeleton.</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Good Lord! It’s taken no more than a summer,</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">give or take, just a few years on,</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">for this knot-bearing grapevine rope to</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">get everything wound about.</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">And here’s a tree with a cute little raptor,</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">looking for who to take out.</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">2</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">With green into yellow transmuting,</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">you pause at the end of your lane,</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and like tired old Tolstoy you mutter</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">‘i.I.a.’, ‘i.I.a.’, ‘i.I.a’.</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">From on high the great man is observing, with</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">his cold blue pupil fixed on</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">this boy who stands there murmuring filth,</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">now become an old man.</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">3</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Chilled, distracted, after drinking solid</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">then sobering up, let your glance go roving</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">round the space named for Osip</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Mandelshtam and Anna Akhmatova.</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Grab yourself a sky-blue piece,</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">then get back to your usual drivel,</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">adding citations—crystal salt, a pinch—</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">hoping they’ll all forgive you.</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From <i>Тайный советник</i> (<i>Privy Councillor</i>), 1987</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Translation ©2019 G.S. Smith)</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In old age, Tolstoy would conclude his diary entries and other writings with the cryptic ‘е.б.ж.’, for ‘если буду жив’, ‘if I’m alive’.</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The epigraph is from Mandelshtam’s essay <i>A Conversation about Dante: </i>‘A citation is not an excerpt. A citation is a cicada. What characterises it is not falling silent. It fastens on to the air, and won’t let go of it’. (Цитата не есть выписка. Цитата есть цикада. Неумолкаемость ей свойственна. Вцепившись в воздух, она его не отпускает.)</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Цитата — цикада. </span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-left: 72px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Мандельштам </span></i></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Мышек не слишком проворные тушки </span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">мешкают в жухлой траве.<br />Остов оржавевшей раскладушки<br />на заглохшей тропе. </span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Крепкое, вьющееся продето<br />сквозь бесхозный скелет.<br />Господи! за какое-то лето,<br />за какие-то несколько лет </span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">узловатое виноградное вервие<br />все успевает увить.<br />Маленький ястреб сидит на дереве, </span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">смотрит, кого бы убить. </span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">2</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Превращенье зеленого в желтое, </span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">застывать на твоем рубеже,<br />как усталый Толстой пришёптывая: </span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">е.б.ж., е.б.ж., е.б.ж. </span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Небожитель следит внимательно </span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">голубым холодным зрачком,<br />как стоит и бормочет матерно мальчик, </span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">сделавшийся старичком.</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">3 </span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Озябший, рассеянный, почти без просыпа </span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">пивший, но протрезвевший, охватывай </span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">взглядом пространство имени Осипа </span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Мандельштама и Анны Ахматовой. </span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Отхвати себе синевы ломоть </span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; 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And there’s so far to go.</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Translation © 2019 G.S. Smith)</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Чудесный десант</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> (</span><i style="font-family: inherit;">The Miraculous Raid</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">), 1985</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Baron Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern (Adam Johann von Krusenstern, 1770-1846), the Baltic German-born admiral, commanded the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe in 1803-6, and wrote an account of it that was translated into many languages.</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Вальс “Фактория”</span></span></h2><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">У моря чего не находишь,</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">чего оно не нанесет.</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Вот так вот, походишь, походишь,</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">глядишь, Крузенштерн приплывет.</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">С приказом от адмиралтейства</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">факторию нашу закрыть,</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">простить нам все наши злодейства</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">и нас в Петербург воротить.</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">С Аринами спят на перинах</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">матросы. Не свистан аврал.</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Пока еще в гардемаринах</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">спасительный тот адмирал.</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Он так непростительно молод,</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">вальсирует, глушит клико.</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Как бабочка, шпилем проколот</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">тот клипер. И так далеко.</span></div><div><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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Smith)</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">В Париже, пьяненьким гриппозным днем, </span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">с моим прямоугольничком пластмассы<br />в его глазах я кандидат в Мидасы. </span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Пойдем, я угощу тебя вином.</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Закат под цвет трико вдовы Клико, </span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">и нищий спутник мой, уже в поддаче, </span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">вдруг говорит: «Мне пишется легко, </span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">а как тебе?» А мне совсем иначе,</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">так трудно... Но постой, приносят счет.<br />В чужом пассаже под стеклянным небом </span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">что ни скажи, все кажется нелепым.</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Пойдем, я угощу тебя еще.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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Freud standing there clad in hardback,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">next to him Jung with innocuous twaddle—</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">sort of a shining-through boundary track,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><i>time’s</i> what it is, seeping down like a thread of</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">drool from a sleeping mouth open a crack’.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">‘Where did you get them, delusions like that?’</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">‘Must be from childhood; a case I could add—</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">when they tried teaching us “waltz Boston fashion”,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">music celestial we came by instead’.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">‘Daydreaming’s all that <i>you </i>got a pass in,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">better ease up on the alcohol, lad!’</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">‘Long-matured liquor with ice and some wa-</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">-ter I blend, with that pseudo-saint there</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">smiling at me, in his leatherette finery…’ </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">‘Don’t go away, don’t… Where? Stay where you are!’</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">‘I’m sailing off on a fantasy ice floe,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">piloted by an invisible star’.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From <i>Послесловие </i>(<i>Afterword</i>), 1998</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Translation © 2019 G.S. Smith)</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 11px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘<i>Antichrist’</i> refers to ‘A Concise Narrative of the Antichrist’, the third section of ‘Three Conversations’ (1899) by Vladimir Soloviov (1853-1900), which predicts the rise and eventual fall of ‘Panmongolism’. More to the point here, perhaps, is a passage in part 1, section VI of Soloviov’s most famous work, <i>The Justification of the Good</i> (1897): ‘As regards drink, common sense forbids the use of strong drink leading to the loss of reason. The principle of asceticism, of course, demands more than that. In general, drink raises the energy of the nervous system and through that of the life of the mind; at the lower stages of spiritual development, where fleshly motives remain the dominant power in the soul, everything that stimulates and enhances the nervous energy that serves the soul, promotes this dominant fleshly element, and consequently is extremely harmful for the spirit; therefore in this situation it is essential to abstain completely from ‘wine or strong drink’ (<i>Leviticus,</i> 10, 9). But at the higher stages of moral life, which were attained in the pagan world by Socrates, for example (see Plato, <i>The Symposium</i>), the energy of the organism serves spiritual rather than fleshly ends, and an increase in nervous activity (of course, within limits, not so as to affect bodily health) strengthens the action of the spirit and consequently may be to a certain degree not only harmless but even directly useful. The universal and unconditional rule remains the same: <i>maintain spiritual sobriety and clarity of consciousness</i>’. (Что касается до питья, то самое простое благоразумие запрещает употребление крепких напитков, доводящее до потери разума. Аскетический принцип требует, конечно, большего. Вообще вино повышает энергию нервной системы и чрез нее психической жизни; на низших ступенях духовного развития, где преобладающая сила в душе еще принадлежит плотским мотивам, все, что возбуждает и поднимает служащую душе нервную энергию, идет на пользу этого господствующего плотского элемента и, следовательно, крайне вредно для духа; поэтому здесь необходимо полное воздержание “от вина и секира” (Лев.10, 9) Но на более высоких ступенях нравственной жизни, какие достигались и в языческом мире, например, Сократом (см. Платонов „Пир“), энергия организма служит более духовным, нежели плотским, целям, и повышение нервной деятельности (разумеется, в пределах, не затрагивающих телесного здоровья) усиливает действие духа и, следовательно, может быть в известной мере не только безвредно, но даже и прямо полезно. Всеобщим и безусловным правилом остается здесь одно: <i>сохранять духовную трезвость и ясность сознания.</i>)</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Нетрезвость</span></h2><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">«В левом углу, чуть правее... да-да, </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">где вместо елки стоит пустота, </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">рядом на полке портрет Соловьева </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">с дикою зарослью в области рта». </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">«Я ничего там не вижу такого </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">в области автора „Антихриста“. </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Свет бы включить — не видать ни черта!» </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">«Видишь, где Фрейда обложка тверда </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">рядом с приятными бреднями Юнга,<br />как бы проблескивает черта — </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">это стекает время, как слюнка </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">из приоткрытого спящего рта». </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">«Где ты набрался подобных химер?»<br />«В детстве, должно быть, когда, например, </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">нас обучали вальсу-бостону,<br />а приучили к музыке сфер». </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">«Вас научили мечтанью пустому, </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">а с алкоголем полегче бы, сэр!» </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">«Спирт задубелый со льдом и водой </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">перемешаю, и псевдосвятой<br />мне улыбнется в своем ледерине...» </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">«Не уходи, не... Куда ты? Постой!» </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">«Я уплываю на призрачной льдине, </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">руководимый незримой звездой». </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><br /><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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Loseff</span></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In Memory of Lithuania</span></span></h2><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">(A Waltz)</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">House made of mist, like one made of adobe,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Thomas Mann, writer, his family abode; he</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">must have been quite a fine <i>Bursche</i>.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Will it take long getting wheels used to tussocks,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">over the river to now extinct Prussians</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">taking a now extinct <i>coursche?</i></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i></i></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Fishwife who lazily gives bra a lift<i>.</i> Shit’s</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">left lying there on the sand by a <i>Spitzchen.</i></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I couldn’t give a goddamn. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Looks like a drop of cold lymph from the Sami</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">got intermixed with my hot blood of Abraham,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><i>gelée</i> from gloomy Chukhna.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i></i></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Trying to hide the sly grin on my dial,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I can see clearly a Kazys and Milda in</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">there midst Danutas, Birutes.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">What we think paradise, I can assure you,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">isn’t a matter that we get to choose—no,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">it’s a <i>zugunder</i> for us<i>.</i></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">They’re all extinct, all those Huns, Turks, and Latins.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Rome’s full of ruins. And New York of butt ends.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Brodsky is in his right mind.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Can’t dodge extinction. But who has? A glimmer —</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Russian ‘died’ (<i>umer</i>), a lunatic <i>immer,</i></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">thrums in a long-yawn <i>jamais.</i></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i></i></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From <i>Чудесный десант</i> (<i>The Miraculous Raid),</i> 1985</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Translation © 2019 G.S. Smith)</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Joseph Brodsky would seem to be mentioned in this context because of the prominent theme of entropy in his poetry.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Памяти Литвы </span></span></h2><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">(вальс) </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Дом из тумана, как дом из самана, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">домик писателя Томаса Манна,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">добрый, должно быть, был бурш.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Долго ль приладить колеса к турусам — </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">в гости за речку к повымершим пруссам </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">правит повымерший курш.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Лиф поправляет лениво рыбачка. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Shit-c на песке оставляет собачка. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Мне наплевать, хоть бы хны. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Видно, в горячую кровь Авраама </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">влита холодная лимфа саама, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">студень угрюмой чухны. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">И, на лице забывая ухмылку,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">ясно так вижу Казиса и Милду,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">в сонме Данут и Бирут.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Знаете, то, что нам кажется раем, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">мы, выясняется, не выбираем, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">нас на цугундер берут.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Вымерли гунны, латиняне, тюрки.<br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">В Риме руины. В Нью-Йорке окурки. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Бродский себе на уме.<br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Как не повымереть. Кто не повымер. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">«Умер» зудит, обезумев, как «immer»,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">в долгой зевоте jamais.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> To Boris Paramonov</span></i></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In the city of the empress</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">who held converse with Diderot,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">where the steel birds’ song impresses</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">in the underbuilt metro,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">where in the Ipat</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">′</span><span style="font-kerning: none;">ev basement,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">for ideas as hot as fire</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">commienuts exterminated</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">children paralysed with fear,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">where the back streets quake in terror</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">at the Uralmash gang’s might, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">where no box will you encounter</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">that’s not made of malachite,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">where that louse of a consumptive,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">shtetl pince-nez all agleam, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">lurks incognito, presumptive</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">dybbuk from a fearful dream,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">in the world’s Eurarsian quarter —</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">that’s the place this book got started.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From <i>Как я сказал</i> (<i>As I Said</i>), 2004</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Translation ©2019 G.S. Smith)</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The book concerned here is Lev Loseff, <i>Sobrannoe,</i> published by U-Faktoriya in Ekaterinburg in 2001. The poem repeats, probably knowingly, the commonly held assertion that the city is named for Catherine II, the Great, who corresponded with Diderot and other Enlightenment thinkers; it was in fact founded in 1723 and named for Peter the Great’s wife, later Empress Catherine I. The ‘consumptive’ is the Bolshevik leader Yakov Sverdlov (1885-1919), whose name the city bore from 1924 to 1991. Tsar Nicholas II and his family were massacred in the Ipat</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">′</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">ev house here on </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">17 July 1918, probably on Sverdlov’s orders. The ‘Uralmash gang’ is a notorious local criminal syndicate; Uralmash is the city’s major heavy engineering factory. <i>The Malachite Box</i> is a notorious example of Stalin-period ‘fakelore’, a collection of stories supposedly collected from workers of the Ural region, but in fact invented by Pavel Bazhov (1879-1950), first published in 1936.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Надпись на книге </span></span></h2><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Б. Парамонову </span></i></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">В городе императрицы, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">собеседницы Дидро,<br />где поют стальные птицы </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">в недостроенном метро, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">где в ипатьевском подвале </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">ради пламенных идей </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">коммуняки убивали </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">перепуганных детей, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">где стращает переулки </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">уралмашская братва,<br />где нельзя найти шкатулки, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">чтоб не малахитова,<br />где чахоточная гнида, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">местечковое пенсне </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">пребывает инкогнито,<br />точно диббук в страшном сне, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">в евмразийской части света —</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">вот где вышла книга эта.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></div><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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font-size: large;">A Postcard from New England, 1</span></h2><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><i>To Joseph</i></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i></i></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The students are heading down to their waterhole, bawling and butting,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">five o’clock has danced out from the library’s neck-worn sleigh bell,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and, striking up something of yours—you’ll have noticed—a neat little motive,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I head down to my tumbril.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I loosen my collar, my belt, and my thinking in English,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">as my dischargees disperse, a bunch of disgruntled fighters.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Fearful of water (again he’s not bothered to wash!) poor Evgenii’s</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">got a bit of a limp in his stress-bearing foot, tetrameteritis.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Rodión’s splitting sticks in an ancient lady professor’s back garden,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">(they’re all going over to wood-stoves these days, for the times get nastier),</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and though he’s corroded (and how), my Kholstomér tried his hardest</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">to manage a gallop. A final neigh, and he’s sent to night pasture.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I see shepherds, the old and the young, starting up their campfire,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">lighting substantive kindling from a verb that is only singular,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and I’m made heavy-hearted, my vision diluted with damp, by</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Gorchakov’s hunchbacked shade as it creeps down the hillside.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This, then, is the way that we live, this the way our days are devolving,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Italian tutors we, Karl Ivanyches, Pnins, the crippled.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Such are our works and our days. And such the loaves that</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">we bake. But our colleagues are different.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Heraclitus (remember he’s <i>‘Doctor’</i>!) is really a big boy for blether — </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">his showy jog down by the river shows <i>him</i> up for what he</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">is, a coward, poor dear; in Adidas sneakers — skirting round depth, he</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">would so like to dip them again in the very same water.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">As for us, in our bloodstream we’ve built up enough stearin for</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">candles to see us through February nights, the longest.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Trochee-crazed Rod</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">i</span><span style="font-kerning: none;">ónovna, like in our needy youth, Arina,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">still has that crock of rotgut, now in her needy dotage.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I have raised up a monument, perch for this feeble turtle</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">dove. ‘There’s drink left, I hope?’ She responds, ‘Most assuredly, mister’.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Joseph, adieu. My friend, if you get through your meat-grinder battle,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and you happen to be in these parts, be sure to pay us a visit.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">L.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">PS</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Mrs General Drozdóv does improve. Less swelling now in her legs</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">(like treetrunks they were, you remember).</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">And Varvára Petrovna’s in heaven —</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">son back from his Switzerlands.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">L.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;">(Translation © 2019 G.S. Smith)</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From <i>Чудесный десант</i> (<i>The Miraculous Raid</i>), 1985</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Translator’s note: I would like to thank Barry Scherr for expert advice on this translation.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘Something of yours’: Loseff has in mind the metre of this poem: not classical hexameter, but the rhymed long-line free <i>dol′nik</i> with variable anacrusis of the type that Joseph Brodsky developed and used extensively in his poetry after his emigration in 1972. An example of this metre with the same stanza form (ABAB quatrains) as ‘A Postcard’ is the first segment of ‘Новый Жюль Верн’, which is dedicated to Lev and Nina Loseff: ‘Безупречная линия горизонта, без какого-либо изъяна./Корвет разрезает волны профилем Франца Листа./Поскрипывают канаты. Голая обезьяна/с криком выскакивает из кабины натуралиста.’</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Throughout this poem, Loseff refers to people (except for Heraclitus) using the names of well-known characters from canonical Russian literature. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Evgenii is the hero of Pushkin’s <i>The Bronze Horseman,</i> whose life is ruined as a result of the catastrophic Petersburg flood of 1824. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rodión Raskol′nikov is the hero of Dostoevsky’s <i>Crime and Punishment.</i></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘I see shepherds…’: The subtext here would appear to be the sixth stanza of Brodsky’s ‘24 декабря 1971 года’: ‘То и празднуют нынче везде,/что Его приближенье, сдвигая/все столы. Но потребность в звезде/пусть еще, но уж воля благая/в человеках видна издали,/и костры пастухи разожгли.’ Pushkin’s ‘Prophet’ perhaps forms the subtext of the second line.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kholstomér is the clapped-out gelding who narrates Tolstoy’s story to which he gives his name; the value of his honest life of toil outweighs that of the humans who have abused him.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In Joseph Brodsky’s ‘dialogue in the madhouse’ ‘Gorbunov and Gorchakov’ (1970), the two characters named in the title are usually regarded as alter egos. Gorbunov is referred to in Loseff’s poem by an adjective derived from the word his name evokes, <i>gorbun,</i>‘hunchback’<i>, </i>rather than his proper surname.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘Italian tutors’: Baratynsky wrote a famous elegy (1844) on his childhood live-in mentor, the Neopolitan émigré Giacinto Borgese. The German émigré ‘Karl Ivanych’ was the tutor in the Tolstoy household, and is portrayed in ‘Childhood’; see also Loseff’s ‘Poem about Novel, 2’, posted here on 30 March 2016. Timofei Pnin, the pitiable Russian émigré who teaches in an American college, is the hero of Nabokov’s novel of that name (1957).</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arina Rodionovna was Pushkin’s sister’s nurse. The immediate subtext here is Pushkin’s</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">poem ‘Winter Evening’, which uses trochees to evoke Russian folk poetry. Tired out, Arina Rodionovna dozes by the fire, and Pushkin invites her (‘old woman of mine’) to take a drink with him ‘out of sadness’, calling for a bowl (<i>kruzhka,</i> as in Loseff).</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">‘I have raised up a monument’ echoes the opening line of another of Pushkin’s best-known lyrics, ‘Exegi monumentum’, based on Horace’s ode</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘get through your meat-grinder battle’: Joseph Brodsky had his first open-heart surgery in 1979, and later two bypass operations.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Praskov′ya Ivanovna Drozdóva, a rich landowner, widow of General Tushin and mother of Nikolai Stavrogin’s mistress Liza Tushina, appears in Dostoevsky’s <i>The Devils;</i> she does indeed suffer from peripheral edema. The imperious and scheming Varvára Petrovna Stavrogina, her ‘friend’ since schooldays, is the widow of General Stavrogin, mother of Nikolai Stavrogin, and protector of the sinister Stepan Verkhovensky. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2N5y_nPv1WI/XNATsF4MiFI/AAAAAAAAYRI/RoC3GE38lYguPtlQ65KYFwrWbcsuM3VOwCLcBGAs/s1600/MainStWinter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="825" data-original-width="1262" height="261" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2N5y_nPv1WI/XNATsF4MiFI/AAAAAAAAYRI/RoC3GE38lYguPtlQ65KYFwrWbcsuM3VOwCLcBGAs/s400/MainStWinter.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Открытка из Новой Англии. 1</span></span></h2><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-left: 144px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Иосифу </span></i></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Студенты, мыча и бодаясь, спускаются к водопою, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">отплясал пять часов бубенчик на шее библиотеки, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">напевая, как видишь, мотивчик, сочиненный тобою, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">я спускаюсь к своей телеге.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Распускаю ворот, ремень, английские мысли, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">разбредаются мои инвалиды недружным скопом. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Водобоязненный бедный Евгений (опять не умылся!) </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">припадает на ударную ногу, страдая четырехстопьем.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Родион во дворе у старухи-профессорши колет дровишки </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">(нынче время такое, что все переходят опять на печное),</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">и порядком оржавевший мой Холстомер, норовивший </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">перейти на галоп, оторжал и отправлен в ночное. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Вижу, старый да малый, пастухи костерок разжигают, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">существительный хворост с одного возжигают глагола, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">и томит мое сердце и взгляд разжижает,<br />оползая с холмов, горбуновая тень Горчакова. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Таково мы живем, таково наши дни коротая, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">итальянские дядьки, Карл Иванычи, Пнины, калеки. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Таковы наши дни и труды. Таковы караваи<br />мы печем. То ли дело коллеги. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Вдоль реки Гераклит Ph. D. выдает брандылясы, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">и трусца выдает, и трусца выдает бедолагу,<br />как он трусит, сердечный, как охота ему адидасы, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">обогнавши поток, еще раз окунуть в ту же влагу. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">А у нас накопилось довольно в крови стеарина — </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">понаделать свечeй на февральскую ночку бы сталось.<br />От хорея зверея, бедной юности нашей Арина<br />с то же кружкой сивушною, Родионовна, бедная старость.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Я воздвиг монумент как насест этой дряхлой голубке. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">— Что, осталось вина? И она отвечает: — Вестимо-с.<br />До свиданья, Иосиф. Если вырвешься из мясорубки, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">будешь в наших краях, обязательно навести нас. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i></i></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Л.</span></i></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">P.S.<br />Генеральша Дроздова здорова. Даже спала опухоль с ног </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">(а то, помнишь, были как бревна).<br />И в восторге Варвара Петровна —<br />из Швейцарий вернулся сынок. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Л. </span></i></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v1fV5IczdJ0/XNATzOEQVJI/AAAAAAAAYRM/M6XkYFNuLWUddn7pSGjCnaY3PiXJexoFgCLcBGAs/s1600/DartmouthGreen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1013" data-original-width="1600" height="252" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v1fV5IczdJ0/XNATzOEQVJI/AAAAAAAAYRM/M6XkYFNuLWUddn7pSGjCnaY3PiXJexoFgCLcBGAs/s400/DartmouthGreen.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="955" height="309" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5hR3PCK6voY/XI5IA4YN4bI/AAAAAAAAYPg/wPAF1R3Q3gATT-QXh8pb43bBYqF5PIC9QCLcBGAs/s400/61%2B%25D1%2581%2B%25D0%2593%25D0%25B5%25D1%2580%25D0%25B0%25D1%2581%25D0%25B8%25D0%25BC%25D0%25BE%25D0%25B2%25D1%258B%25D0%25BC%25D0%25B8%2B%25D0%25B2%2B%25D1%2582%25D1%2580%25D0%25B0%25D0%25BC%25D0%25B2%25D0%25B0%25D0%25B5.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; color: #5a5a5a; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 5px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Nina Mokhova-Loseff, Vladimir Gerasimov, Natasha Sharymova (<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left;">Vainer)</span>, Lev Loseff ca. 1960</span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Miraculous Raid</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></h2><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Things were going like they usually go.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Tormented by longing for weekend,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">grinding round in their trams went the folk;</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">tormented by longing for sweeties,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">nursery kids trudged back from parade.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Then a unit of God’s own angels,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">a celestial miraculous raid,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">descended on Leningrad-Hades.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Bazooka shells blast Hermitage</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">shrubbery. Shouts of ‘Hosanna!’</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Already they’ve seized every bridge,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the stations, the ‘Quisisana’.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The bolts of the jail swept aside</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">by grenades and the Word Almighty.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Its hostages somewhat surprised —</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">caught asleep,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> or pie-eyed,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> or in nightwear.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Over here! Mikhail, Leonid,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">three women, Yurii, Volodyas!</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Our transport heads west, at full speed.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">You’re free now, for we are victorious.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The rustle of wings bearing wounds</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">dragging along the pavement.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The unit lobs mortar rounds</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">to cover our chopper’s movement.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">But strength, like wax, melts and droops,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the angelic unit’s exhausted,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">forced back by security troops</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">grimly shuffling home from their workday.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">We rise up, we’re headed away,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">dissolving in fading heavens.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Beneath us patrol flashlights play</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">in Ulyanka, Grazhdanka, Entebbe.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Midnight embers smouldering down</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">like the farewell stripe of a sunset —</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the pontoon bridge we had blown</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">on a sandbar not far from Kronstadt.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From <i>Чудесный десант</i> (<i>The Miraculous Raid</i>), 1985</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Translation ©2019 G.S. Smith)</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Quisisana was a restaurant at 44 Nevsky Prospekt, in the centre of St Petersburg; it closed in 1914, but the name persisted for the various eating-places that subsequently occupied the site. The restaurant is mentioned in many literary memoirs. At present the café ‘Sever’ (‘North’) is located at this address.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the fifth stanza, LL refers to some of his closest literary friends: Mikhail Eremin, 1936-; Leonid Vinogradov, 1936-2004; Yurii Mikhailov, 1933-90, Vladimir Gerasimov, 1935-2015, and Vladimir Uflyand, 1937-2007. One of the ‘three women’ must be Loseff’s wife Nina Mokhova; another is probably Natalya Vainer (now Sharymova, once the ‘significant other’ of Gerasimov); the identity of the third is uncertain. I am grateful to Dimitry Loseff for advice on this question.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ulyanka and Grazhdanka are districts of Petersburg. ‘Entebbe’ evidently refers to the hostage rescue at the airport there by Israeli commandos on 4 July 1976.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Чудесный десант</span></span></h2><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Все шло, как обычно идет.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Томимый тоской о субботе,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">толокся в трамвае народ,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">томимый тоской о компоте,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">тащился с прогулки детсад.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Вдруг ангелов Божьих бригада,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">небесный чудесный десант</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">свалился на ад Ленинграда.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Базука тряхнула кусты</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">вокруг Эрмитажа. Осанна!</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Уже захватили мосты,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">вокзалы, кафе “Квисисана”.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Запоры тюрьмы смещены</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">гранатой и словом Господним.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Заложники чуть смущены —</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">кто спал,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> кто нетрезв,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> кто в исподнем.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Сюда — Михаил, Леонид,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">три женщины, Юрий, Володи!</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">На запад машина летит.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Мы выиграли, вы на свободе.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Шуршание раненых крыл,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">влачащихся по тротуарам.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Отлет вертолета прикрыл</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">отряд минометным ударом.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Но<span style="font-family: inherit;"> таяли </span>силы, как воск,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">измотанной ангельской роты</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">под натиском внутренних войск,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">понуро бредущих с работы.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">И мы вознеслись и ушли,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">растаяли в гаснущем небе.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Внизу фонарей патрули</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">в Ульянке, Гражданке, Энтеббе.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">И тлеет полночи потом</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">прощальной полоской заката</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">подорванный нами понтон</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">на отмели подле Кронштадта.</span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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font-size: x-small;">Lev Loseff / <a class="_64-f" href="https://www.facebook.com/levloseff/" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: inherit; cursor: pointer; text-align: start; text-decoration: none;">Лев Лосев</a> ca. 1972</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">‘Yes, I know—Tatar yoke, years of famine,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">no democracy though ages passed by,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">but that naff Russian spirit’s the main thing’—</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">said this poet to me,—‘I<i> </i>can’t abide.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">All those sweet little showers and birches,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">those aaaghs about folks gone before’—</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and the poet pulled a face meant to hurt you,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">twisting delicate lips in a sneer.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">He went on, getting more and more shirty,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">‘I detest them, those drink-sodden nights,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the drunkards’ remorseful sincerity,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Dostoevsky split-soul of the narks,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">dear old vodka and dear little mushrooms,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">cute young girlies and cute little sins,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">then when dawn comes, instead of a wash-down</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">we get Blok with his watery lines;</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the guitar poets with lances of cardboard</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and their stage-actor’s frog in the throat,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">our iambs, flat-footed and vapid,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and trochees that trundle, not trot;</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">stuff held sacred’s insultingly batty,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">all set up for the simpletons,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and that life-giving river, pure Latin,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">took a course that went right past us.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">All too true — it’s the land of nogoodniks,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">there’s not even a decent gents’—</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">like Chaadaev almost, that lunatic,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">my poet unexpectedly ends.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">But his Russian speech, fluent quicksilver,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">made him skirt round some matter of weight,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and he seemed to stare over the river,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">where an archangel’s trump died away.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">[From <i>Чудесный десант </i>(<i>The Miraculous Raid</i>), 1985]</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Translation ©2019 G.S. Smith)</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">‘Понимаю — ярмо, голодуха,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">тыщу лет демократии нет,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">но худого российского духа</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">не терплю’,—говорил мне поэт.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">‘Эти дождички, эти березы,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">эти охи по части могил’,—</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">и поэт с выраженьем угрозы</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">свои тонкие губы кривил.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">И еще он сказал, распаляясь:</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">‘Не люблю этих пьяных ночей,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">покаянную искренность пьяниц,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">достоевский надрыв стукачей,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">эту водочку, эти грибочки,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">этих девочек, эти грешки</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">и под утро заместо примочки</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">водянистые Блока стишки;</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">наших бардов картонные копья</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">и актерскую их хрипоту,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">наших ямбов пустых плоскостопье</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">и хореев худых хромоту;</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">оскорбительны наши святыни,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">все рассчитаны на дурака,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">и живительной чистой латыни</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">мимо нас протекала река.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Вот уж правда — страна негодяев:</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">и клозета приличного нет’,—</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">сумасшедший, почти как Чаадаев,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">так внезапно закончил поэт.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Но гибчайшею русскою речью</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">что-то главное он огибал</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">и глядел словно прямо в заречье,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">где архангел с трубой погибал.</span></div><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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font-size: large;"><br /></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Interpreting Tselkov</span></h2><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Hemp-rope hairiness, candle wax.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">A face with a backside over.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">What remains, do your best to extract</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">from the flame, the murk, and the puther.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Now there’s only a menacing trace,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">in the black flame-memento of colour,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">of Tselkov in his ‘scutcheon’ phase,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Latin <i>larvae</i>, or ‘masks’ as we call them.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Instead of landscapes and flowers,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">these masks, with their rips and punctures,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">like placards for pointless fuss,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">used to hang there in Soviet apartments.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">And though they were eyeless, they’d spy—</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">anti-icons they might be accounted—</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">on rebarbative days flying by,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">shots of rotgut, and laws being flouted.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">But paintbrush and pencil still</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">make a movement from cycle to cycle.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Tselkov’s pictures gave rise to a soul,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">with a butterfly’s yellow its signal.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">From these do-you-in larval sheaths,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">(God forbid you should dream them at nighttime)</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">if you look, you can see it steal</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">through an eye socket with no eye in.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">So here it alights on a nail,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and there it flicks by like lightning.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">On candle, hemp rope, overall.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Even places you can’t descry it.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From <i>Чудесный десант </i>(<i>The Miraculous Raid</i>), 1985</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The eminent artist Oleg Tselkov (b. 1934) studied theatre arts in Leningrad in the 1950s, and moved in the same circles as Lev Loseff and his literary friends at that time; they were involved in several well-documented escapades. Tselkov moved to Moscow in 1958, and then to Paris in 1977.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Translator’s note: I would like to thank Mikhail Efimov for advice concerning this translation.)</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Translation © 2019 G.S. Smith)</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Translations of this poem by Henry Pickford and Walter Arndt are <a href="http://levloseff.blogspot.com/2014/02/an-interpretation-of-tselkov-tselkov.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Истолкование Целкова </span></h2><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Ворс веревки и воск свечи. </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Над лицом воздвижение зада. </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Остальное — поди различи </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">среди пламени, мрака и чада. </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Лишь зловеще еще отличим<br />в черной памяти-пламени красок<br />у Целкова период личин,<br />«лярв» латинских, по-нашему «масок».</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Замещая ландшафт и цветы,<br />эти маски в прорехах и дырах </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">как щиты суеты и тщеты </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">повисали в советских квартирах. </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Там безглазо глядели они, </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">словно некие антииконы,<br />как летели постылые дни, </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">пился спирт, попирались законы.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Но у кисти и карандаша<br />есть движение к циклу от цикла. </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">В виде бабочки желтой душа<br />на холстах у Целкова возникла.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Из личинок таких, что — хана,<br />из таких, что не дай Бог приснится, </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">посмотри, пролезает она<br />сквозь безглазого глаза глазницу.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Здесь присела она на гвозде, </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">здесь трассирует молниевидно. </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">На свече, на веревке, везде.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Даже там, где ее и не видно.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></div><br /><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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This implies a longing for the transcendental, for a way out beyond the boundaries of existence, for journeying through space to other worlds.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-left: 66.6px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 11px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-left: 144px; margin-top: 0.1px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Juan Eduardo Cirlot</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Lo, he returns, prodigal SOB,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">back to the land of native alder-speak,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">it’s where the tribes from Ilmen further east</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">still share the pelt of <i>pelmen</i>, undead beast.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-left: 72px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">*</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">So he returns, but it’s on aching feet,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the stink of alien speech comes from his gob;</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">as he returns, some things rise up and greet:</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">gloom, woods, squelch-bog.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-left: 36px; margin-top: 0.1px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">*</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">He’s welcomed for his foreign style of dress,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">granted the seat of honour in the hut.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">He goes back to his favourite thing, which is</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">counting the angels on a needle’s point.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-left: 72px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">*</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">He informs everyone that Earth is round,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">that nothing can break through this tough old ball,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">unless a Comet take a curve that’s wrong,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">which isn’t very likely, on the whole.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-left: 72px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">*</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">One day, he reads his fill (no lamp required)</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">pulling books off the shelves any old how,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">goes out to stretch his legs a little while,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and sees another needle, up above.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-left: 72px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">*</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Against the LP of the northern skies</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">this needle saws a melody that shows </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">some playfulness — romance, waltz, or the like.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Bright light has set the needle all aglow,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">a golden frigate sticks fast to its side,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">as if it had tied up, not long ago.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-left: 72px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">*</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">On it, a crew of angels he makes out</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and counts (there’s 25 of them all told),</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and on the deck of this small golden boat</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">there’s fluttering wings, and lights that dart about,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">acting like children or like pirates do.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-left: 72px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">*</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">His lips move as he formulates a thought:</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">‘So this is how they look, we may decide,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">those flying objects, unidentified —</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">this is the place where Earth takes them on board’.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 11px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From <i>Тайный советник </i>(<i>Privy Councillor</i>), 1987</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Translation ©2018 G.S. Smith)</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 11px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Concerning the epigraph, Barry Scherr writes: ‘… from Juan Eduardo Cirlot, <i>A Dictionary of Symbols</i> (translated from the Spanish into English, and this portion translated from the English into Russian by LL) toward the end of the entry for “Ship”: “Another meaning, sometimes quite independent of the foregoing, derives not so much from the idea of the ship as such but rather from the notion of sailing; this is the symbolism of the Ship-of-Death. Hence, many primitive people place ships on the end of a pole or on the roof of a house. On occasion, it is the roof itself (of the temple or house) which is made to resemble a ship. Always the implication is the desire to transcend existence—to travel through space to other worlds”.’</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 11px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The ‘native alder tree’ comes from an epigram by Turgenev about the pretentious and slovenly prose translation of Shakespeare into Russian made by the medical doctor and journalist Nikolai Khristoforovich Ketsher (1809-86): ‘Behold another of the world’s luminaries,/Ketsher, friend of wines from Champagne,/Who for us dragged Shakespeare over/into the language of our native aspens’ (Вот еще светило мира,/Кетчер, друг шампанских вин,/Перепер он нам Шекспира/На язык родных осин.) This gave rise to the locution ‘the language of our native aspens’, meaning a crude or homely style.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘Ilmen’ refers to the lake near Novgorod in north-west Russia, and has nothing to do with J.R.R.Tolkien.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘Gloom, woods, squelch-bog’: a reference to the opening section of Pushkin’s <i>Bronze Horseman,</i> about the founding of Petersburg by Peter the Great: ‘A hundred years passed by,/And the youthful city,/ornament and wonder of the northern lands/From the murk of forests, the squelch of bogs/luxuriantly and proudly rose up’ (Прошло сто лет, и юный град,/Полнощных стран краса и диво,<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">/</span>Из тьмы лесов, из топи блат<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">/</span>Вознесся пышно, горделиво.)</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Pushkin’s poem is referred to again in stanza 5, where the poet speaks of being able to read and write ‘without a lamp’, during the ‘white nights’ in St Petersburg.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">The needle with the frigate refers, of course, to the spire of the Admiralty in St. Petersburg; for the literary context, see </span>Роман Тименчик<i>, ‘</i>Игра со шпицем’, in <i>Лифшиц/Лосев/Loseff. Сборник памяти Льва Владимировича Лосева</i>, под ред. Михаила Гронаса и Барри Шерра (Moscow, NLO, 2017), 366-82.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 11px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 11px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-left: 61.6px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Нередко у примитивных народов кораблик помещается на верхушке шеста, водружаемого на крыше...Так имплицируется желание трансцендентального, выхода за пределы бытия, путешествия через пространство к иным мирам.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-left: 61.6px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 10px; text-indent: 1.4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-left: 180px; margin-top: 0.1px; text-indent: 36px;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Х.-Э. Сирло</span></i></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Се возвращается блудливый сукин сын </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">туда, туда, в страну родных осин,<br />где племена к востоку от Ильменя<br />все делят шкуру неубитого пельменя. </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-left: 72px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">*</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Он возвращается, стопы его болят,<br />вся речь его чужой пропахла речью,<br />он возвращается, встают ему навстречу</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">тьма — лес — топь блат.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-left: 72px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">*</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Его встречают по заморску платью,<br />его сажают в красные углы.<br />Он возвращается к любимому занятью — </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">подсчетам ангелов на острие иглы. </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-left: 72px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">*</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Он всем поведал, что Земля кругла </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">и некому пробить сей крепкий круг, </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">вот разве что Комета, сделав крюк, </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">но вероятность в общем-то мала. </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-left: 72px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">*</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Однажды, начитавшись без лампад, </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">надергав книжек с полок невпопад, </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">он вышел прогуляться до угла<br />и вдруг увидел: вон еще игла. </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-left: 72px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">* </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Там, из пластинки северных небес </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">игла пила мелодию не без<br />игривости — романса, что ли? вальса? </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">И к той иголке, светом залитой, </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">как прикипел фрегатик золотой, </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">похоже только что пришвартовался. </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-left: 72px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">*</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Команду ангелов сумел он увидать </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">и сосчитать (их было 25),<br />на палубе златого корабля </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">мелькали крылья, бегали огни, </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">они вели себя как дети, как пираты. </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-left: 72px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">*</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">И думал он, губами шевеля: </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">«Выходит, вот как выглядят они, </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">летательные эти аппараты,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">так вот где принимает их Земля».</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; 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font-size: large;"><br /></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">31 October 1958</span></h2><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> My dream evoked sharp anguish.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> <i>Martynov</i></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> It’s only later on that you feel sick...</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> <i>Slutsky</i></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The operation lasted no more than a minute.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Now Leonid Nikolaevich and Boris Abramovich</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">coward their way down Vorovsky Street,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">feeling neither pain,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">nor shame,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">nor regret at the sight of that flock</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">of muses, sobbing as they disappear behind the Foreign Ministry.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Ahead there will be many summers,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">winters, springtimes, trips abroad,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">translations from the Eastern European,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the selected, the death, the commission for the literary legacy.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I imagine the space between hell and heaven</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">as an enormous railway station.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Where they spend the night (not sleeping though) on hard benches,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">crowd round the buffet (the girl’s gone out for a minute),</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">stare at the epileptic having convulsions under the sign saying</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">‘Purchased Tickets are Non-Returnable</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and Non-Exchangeable’,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and stand guard on their place in a queue stretching</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">immobile between grimy columns</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">like a tail between legs.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">If anyone knows any genuine prayers,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">say them for these two.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From <i>Тайный советник</i> (<i>Privy Councillor</i>), 1987</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Translation © 2018 G.S. Smith)</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 11px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">31 October 1958 is the date of the notorious meeting of the Moscow branch of the Union of Soviet Writers, called to ‘consider’ the case of Boris Pasternak after he published <i>Dr Zhivago</i> abroad and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. Thе meeting was held at the Union building on Vorovsky St, at the end of which towers the Stalin ‘wedding cake’ of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The poets Leonid Martynov (1905-80) and Boris Slutsky (1919-86) voted to expel Pasternak. Slutsky made a brief speech in favour of the motion; most sources agree that he never forgave himself for doing so. </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The first epigraph is from the opening of Martynov’s poem ‘The Chronicler of Tobolsk’ (‘Tobol’skii letopisets’, 1936), about a pre-revolutionary convict who has had his nostrils ripped by the state’s executioner, a standard form of punishment: ‘From morning on Soimonov was full of anguish, in a dream he had seen Peter [the Great]./The Tsar gave him a sniff of tobacco, but chortled as he said/‘With your ripped nostrils you’re going to spill it!’/That dream evoked sharp anguish.’ (Соймонов тосковал с утра,—/во сне увидел он Петра./Царь дал понюхать табаку,/но усмехнулся, говоря:/— Просыплешь, рваная ноздря! —/Сон вызвал острую тоску.) In editions of Loseff’s poetry <i>теку,</i> the last word of the epigraph, is evidently a misprint. </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The second epigraph derives from Slutsky’s poem about his service as a prosecutor when he was a political officer (<i>politruk</i>) during the Great Patriotic War, which inevitably evokes ‘the Pasternak affair’: ‘I used to be a judge, I know for sure/that judging people isn’t awkward in the least/—it’s only later on that you feel sick/if you make the mistake of remembering…’ (‘Я судил людей и знаю точно,/что судить людей совсем несложно - /только погодя бывает тошно, /если вспомнишь как-нибудь оплошно’.)</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 11px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">31 oктября 1958 года </span></h2><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-left: 72px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Сон вызвал острую тeку. </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-left: 108px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Мартынов </span></i></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-left: 72px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Только вот потом бывает тошно... </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-left: 108px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><i>Слуцкий</i><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><i> </i></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-left: 72px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Операция продолжалась не более минуты. </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Леонид Николаевич и Борис Абрамович </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">трусят по улице Воровского,<br />не испытывая ни боли, </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">ни стыда,<br />ни сожаления при виде стайки<br />муз, рыдая удаляющихся за здание МИДа. </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Впереди еще будет много лет,<br />зим, весен, загранпоездок,<br />переводы с восточноевропейского,<br />избранное, смерть, комиссия по лит. наследству. </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Место между адом и раем<br />мне представляется огромным вокзалом.<br />Там они ночуют (но не спят) на твердых скамейках, </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; 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Zelenogorsk)</div><div><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">From Vergil</span></span></h2><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">… that my verse is pretty poor,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">but if I could command the Aeolian mode,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I too could say: ‘And so, away he went,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">just like a lawyer who has won his case,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and who then claps his client on the shoulder,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and leaves for his blue-paradise Campagna’</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">(or else Zelenogorsk, the one that’s green). </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The music of departure sounds so clear</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">in backwoods quiet when autumn is approaching!</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">See how this splash of cognac now refracts</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">a sunset ray falling slantwise across</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the tumbler’s base, so as to gild this page</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">on which the final line is broken off</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">after a hyphen…</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">[From <i>Новые сведения о Карле и Кларе,</i> 2006]</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Translation © G.S. Smith 2018)</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Из Вергилия</span></h2><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">…что стих мой бедноват,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">а вот владей я эолийским ладом,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">и я бы мог сказать: «Он уходил,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">как выигравший дело адвокат, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">когда, похлопав по плечу клиента,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">он отбывает в синий рай Кампаньи»</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">(или зеленый рай Зеленогорска).</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Как внятно в захолустной тишине</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">звучит под осень музыка ухода!</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Как преломляет малость коньяка</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">на дне стакана падающий косо</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">закатный луч, который золотит</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">страницу, где последняя строка</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">оборвана на знаке переноса…</span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Soaking wet stretch the embankments,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">raindrops, patternless</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">(monocles at casual dangle)</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">patter on my chest.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Making waves with circling motion,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">mooring posts stand fast—</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">sort of top hats slick with moisture,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">worn a little slant.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">And the great lagoon’s a stage set,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">bustling all the while,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">far-off foam whips up, to make it</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">neckwear all in white.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">You could spit over the eye-span</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">sailors need to cross.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Watching you is a small island,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">fat-cheeked and snub-nosed.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">With a gaze defunct and hardened</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">(damp, dead, and direct)</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">at the sky stares the wet marble</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">under which he rests,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">ex-up-yours to the tsars’ playhouse,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">that poor sybarite—</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">like unto the lion of Venice,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Diaghilev, in his pit.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Deep blue sea, so melancholy,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and the tombs so black!</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In the minor ever droning,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">with their white smokestacks,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">two each, go the local steamers, </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">ploughing up a wave.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Further, though, than the black pine trees</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">run the lines of rain.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From <i>Тайный советник</i> (<i>Privy Councillor</i>), 1987</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Translation ©2018 G.S. Smith)</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Дождь </span></h2><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Набережные намокли,</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">капли как-нибудь,<br />как небрежные монокли </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">падают на грудь. </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">То-то волны кольцевидны, </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">сваи в них весь день, </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">точно мокрые цилиндры, </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">малость набекрень.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">А большой лагуны сцена </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">вечно в мельтешне,<br />там захлестывает пена </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">белое кашне. </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Расстояния матросам<br />на один плевок. </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Толстощеким и курносым </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">смотрит островок. </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Взглядом мертвым и упрямым </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">(мокр и мертв, и прям)<br />смотрит в небо мокрый мрамор, </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">под которым там </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">бывший кукиш сцене царской, </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">бедный сибарит,<br />аки лев венецианский </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Дягилев зарыт. </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">То-то горе — сине море, </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">черные гробы!<br />Но гудят, гудят в миноре </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">в белых две трубы </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">пароходы местных линий, </span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">воды бороздя.<br />И длиннее черных пиний</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">линии дождя.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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Smith)</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Murano is a cluster of seven linked islands in the Venetian lagoon, and for centuries has been the site of the renowned glass industry.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Мура, но...</span></h2><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Стекло — произведенье рта.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Но есть запретная черта.<br />Переступи ее, попробуй: глядь, и не вышло ни черта.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Поэтому в горячий рот</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">он трубку длинную берет<br />и раскаленный шар вздувает, то кверху, то наоборот.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Мура, конечно, мишура.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">К тому же страшная жара.<br />К тому же, вредная работа, и редки стали мастера.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; min-height: 15px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Овеществленный вздох оно.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; margin-top: 0.1px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Но вот оно отделено.<br />И вот оно стоит на полке — красиво, но слегка смешно.</span></div><br /><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 11px;"><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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Semenov / На смерть Б.Ф.Семёнова<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_Pv8ed1YAIQ/WyznLKxUETI/AAAAAAAAYJI/2SYYqtBKH0UZlw756NSo-8BK9WWmeXWGwCLcBGAs/s1600/SemyonovLoseff1962.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1188" data-original-width="1600" height="297" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_Pv8ed1YAIQ/WyznLKxUETI/AAAAAAAAYJI/2SYYqtBKH0UZlw756NSo-8BK9WWmeXWGwCLcBGAs/s400/SemyonovLoseff1962.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">B.F. Semyonov (6.22.1910 - 1992), Lev Loseff et al. ca. 1962</td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">On the Death of B.F. Semenov</span></span></h2><div class="p2"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="p2"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This jester, this man self-taught,</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">they’ve parcelled him up in canvas,</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">with his features, now sharp and taut,</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">poking out from the floral tributes.</span></span></div><div class="p2"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Where’ve you gone? Respond, I insist,</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">you Petrograd-Israel denizen,</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">old angel of mine, atheist,</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">friend, reader, and booster,</span></span></div><div class="p2"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">who taught me the way<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">to parade round the pubs, splurging,</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and higher than Mozart assay</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the swish, the shuffle, the rustle</span></span></div><div class="p2"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">of sole against granite’s grain,</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">of bubbles in thick-glass beerfoam,</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">of mac and cap against rain,</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the Neva against her stepstones,</span></span></div><div class="p2"><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the heavens that ’45 set<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">against vivid victory salvoes —</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">as you would never have said,</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and without you I wouldn’t either.</span></span></div><div class="p2"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">May the funeral score</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">rustle over that canvas in shekels,</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">for what else is there more</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">in Palestine left to rustle?</span></span></div><div class="p2"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p2"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p3"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">From <i>Новые сведения о Карле и Кларе</i> (<i>New Information about Carl and Clara</i>, 1996).</span></span></div><div class="p3"><br /></div><div class="p3"><span style="font-size: small;">(Translation © 2018 G.S. Smith)</span></div><div class="p3"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div class="p3"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">The illustrator and designer Boris Fedorovich Semenov (St Petersburg 1910–Jerusalem 1992) was a revered mentor to Lev Loseff from his earliest years. He served as art director of the children’s magazines <i>Chizh</i> (<i>Siskin</i>) and <i>Ezh </i>(<i>Hedgehog</i>), and also of the journal <i>Neva</i> and the Lenizdat publishing house; he was a colleague and friend of Loseff’s parents from before World War II.</span></span></div><div class="p4"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">На смерть Б.Ф. Сем</span>ё<span style="font-family: inherit;">нова</span></span></span></h2><div class="p2"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="p2"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Завернули в холсты,</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">и торчат из цветочной кучки<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">заострившиеся черты<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">остряка-самоучки.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p2"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Где ты там, отзовись,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">петроградско-израильскии житель,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">старый ангел мой, атеист,<br />друг, читатель, хвалитель,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p2"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">обучивший меня<br />по пивным козырять, раскошелясь,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">выше звуков Моцáрта ценя,<br />шорох, шарканье, шелест<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p2"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">по граниту подошв,<br />пузырей в толстокружечной пене,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">макинтошей и кепок о дождь,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">невских волн о ступени,</span></span></div><div class="p2"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">в сорок пятом небес<br />о цветные салютные залпы,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">как бы ты не сказал<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">и как без тебя я не сказал бы.</span></span></div><div class="p2"><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Пусть кладбищенский счет<br />в шекелях шелестит по холстине,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">потому что чему же еще</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">шелестеть в Палестине?</span></div><style type="text/css"> p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.1px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.1px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; min-height: 15.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.1px 0.0px; font: 10.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} p.p4 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; min-height: 15.0px} p.p5 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} </style></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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Smith)</span></div><div class="p2"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="p2"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Пристань</span></h2><div class="p2"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">«Возможно ли не веровать в бессмертие души,</span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">но все же слушать ангелов, посланников Господних?»</span></div><div class="p2"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Ждет отправленья пароход, а я стою на сходнях</span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">и подо мной мелка вода и шумны камыши,</span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">и незнакомый бережок передо мной в тиши.</span></div><div class="p2"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">«Ведь я могу сказать «ревю», могу сказать «еврю»,</span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">так почему же я одно никак не говорю?»</span></div><div class="p2"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Две рюмочки волнуют кровь, но не открыться рту.</span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Ах, жаль друзей и багажа, что остаются на борту.</span></div><div class="p2"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">На берегу туман, трава,</span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">туман и тишина, тропа,</span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">туман и все-таки тропа свое не прекращает гнуть.</span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Пора куда-нибудь шагнуть —</span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">уже трубит труба.</span></div><style type="text/css"> p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px 'Times New Roman'} </style> <br /><div class="p2"><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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font-size: large;">The Invisible Ballad</span></span></h2><div class="p2" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I</span></span></div><div class="p2" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">He dropped by the wake for a vodka,</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">my neighbour, by name Ivanóv,</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">when I was no more than twenty,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and the curse of TB took me off.</span></span></div><div class="p2" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Draped over my pinewood coffin,</span></i></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">was a cloth with Christ on the cross.</span></i></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">My forehead had putrefaction</span></i></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and peacefulness branded across.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></span></div><div class="p2" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Lutherans all sat together,</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">without the least whiff of booze,</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">only wiping away the teardrops</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">with those coarse handkerchiefs they use—</span></span></div><div class="p2" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">pharmacist Gerbert Betranych,</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">bootmaker Karl Iogannych,</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">baker Gotfrid Stefanych,</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and Berta Frantsevna Schulz.</span></span></div><div class="p2" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">A pair of mamselles, out for pleasure,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the ones from the ‘Alsace’,</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">said ‘wie schone, schone Seele!’</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">softly, with tears in their eyes.</span></span></div><div class="p2" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">He left behind on his easel</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">a still life—unfinished, as well,</span></span></div><div class="p2" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">‘It’s instead of his rent for Berta,</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">who’s a landlady straight from hell,</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">it’s gorgeous, but you can’t eat it —</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">some sausage, what’s left of a roll.</span></span></div><div class="p3" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Oh, such an unfortunate youngling,</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">he’s famished and shoeless, poor soul!</span></span></div><div class="p2" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Oh, it’s coming apart, the fabric</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">of the notebooks with poems he would write.</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The final remark there is frightening—</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“The rest when I’ve had a bite”.’</span></span></div><div class="p2" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">II</span></span></div><div class="p2" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">That cloth with the crucified Saviour</span></i></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">covers my box made of pine.</span></i></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">And gripped by putrifaction</span></i></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the late lamented opines:</span></i></span></div><div class="p2" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">‘That poor Ivanóv, lay off him,</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">just pour him a shot of schnapps.</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">One who’s left this world behind him</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">has no need (and there’s no perhaps!),</span></span></div><div class="p2" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Mr Pharmacist, for your potions,</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">for your boots, Mr Cobbler, no call,</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and the charms of those young ladies</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">are no temptation at all!</span></span></div><div class="p2" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Mr Baker, what are your bread rolls</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">to souls who from flesh are made free?</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">On one of the Petersburg islands</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">my corpse has rotted away.</span></span></div><div class="p2" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I once was a tailor’s apprentice,</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">dreaming dreams in the empyrean blue</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">(that poor Ivanóv, lay off him,</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">just pour him a shot or two!),</span></span></div><div class="p2" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">for after the decomposition</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">of all that was flesh and blood,</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">i.e. the demise of the body</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">what’s left for the soul to do?</span></span></div><div class="p2" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">No lips, so how to start singing?</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">What tailoring if no hands?</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">But my soul with its new-found freedom</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">has gone back to what it once had:</span></span></div><div class="p2" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">against a sky the same colour</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">as that of a pencil lead,</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">my soul traces something invisible—</span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">this something that you just read.</span></span></div><div class="p2" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p4" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">From <i>Как я сказал</i> (<i>As I Said</i>), 2005</span></span></div><div class="p4" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="p4" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">(Translation © 2018 G.S. Smith)</span></span></div><div class="p5" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p6" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Невидимая баллада</span></span></h2><div class="p2" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p8" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Хлебнуть на поминках водки<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">зашел Иванов, сосед,</span></div><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">когда я от злой чахотки</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></div></span><br /><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">скончался в двадцать лет.</span></span></div><div class="p2" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Тканью с Христом распятым<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">накрыт сосновый гроб.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></span></div><div class="p1"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Покоем и распадом</span></i></div><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">мой опечатан лоб.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></div></span><br /><div class="p8" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Сидели рядком лютеране,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">и даже не пахло вином,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">лишь слезы они утирали<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">суровым полотном,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p8" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">аптекарь Герберт Бертраныч,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">сапожник Карл Иоганныч,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">пекарь Готфрид Стефаныч,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Берта Францевна Шульц.</span></span></div><div class="p2" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="p1"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Гулящие две мамзели</span></div><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">из заведения «Эльзас»,</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit;">«Wie schone, schone Seele!» —</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></span></span><br /><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">шептали, прослезясь.</span></span></div><div class="p2" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">оставил на мольберте<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">неоконченный натюрморт:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p8" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">«Он вместо квартплаты Берте,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">хозяйке злой, как черт,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">прекрасен, а в рот не сунешь<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">булки ломóть с колбасой.</span></div><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Ах, бедный, бедный юнош,</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></div></span><br /><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">голодный и босой!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p8" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Ах, кружева развязались<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">в тетрадях его поэм.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Ужасна последняя запись:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">окончу, когда поем».<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></span></div><div class="p8" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">II<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p8" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Спасителем распятым<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">сосновый гроб накрыт.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Охваченный распадом,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">покойник говорит:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></span></div><div class="p8" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">«Не мучайте Иванова,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">налейте шнапса ему.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">А жителю мира иного<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">не нужно, ни к чему,</span></span></div><div class="p2" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">аптекарь, ваших зелий,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">сапожник, ваших штиблет,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">и прелести мамзелей</span></div><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">уж не прельщают, нет!</span></div></span><br /><div class="p8" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Пекарь, к чему ваши булки<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">душам, свободным от тел?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">На острове в Петербурге<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">остов мой истлел.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p8" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Я был ученик портного,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">мечтой в эмпиреях паря<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">(не мучайте Иванова,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">налейте стопаря!),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p8" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">а после того, как истлела<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">вся бывшая плоть уже,</span></div><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">т. е. после распада тела</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></div></span><br /><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">что делать-то душе?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p8" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Без губ чего вы споете?</span></span></div><div class="p1"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Без рук какое шитье?»</span></div><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">А все ж душа на свободе</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></div></span><br /><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">снова взялась за свое —<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p8" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">в небе того же цвета,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; 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font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Written high up, just under the roof,</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">it says, incomprehensibly, XY.</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The man who inscribed this device</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">made so bold as to threaten the skies.</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Like an enemy fort smashing down</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the old shrine of our gods outworn.</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">From the skies, for forgotten folk,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">a second Prometheus, he took</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">not fire but a pale blue light —</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the TV in their huts at night.</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Pain and peril don’t scare him at all.</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Liver pecked at by alcohol,</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">he still strikes the eagle pose,</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">takes a swig from his bottle’s nose,</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">then brings up his ladder again,</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">so’s to finish writing his sign.</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Well versed how we Russians spell, <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">he’ll position that bold little curl</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">on the И that comes after the ХУ,</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and complete what he’s laboured to do.</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Russian frost cannot touch him, nor</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">can sclerosis, cirrhosis, no more</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">than depression, infarct, or insult,</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">he’ll continue the phallic cult,</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">being made flesh in that word Tartars lent</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">with a piglet’s tail on its rear end.</span></span></div><div class="p2"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">From <i>Чудесный десант</i> (<i>The Miraculous Raid</i>), 1985</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-size: small;">(Translation © 2018 G.S. Smith)</span></div><div class="p2"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p3"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">The word on the wall in the first line is made up of the first two letters of the most common Russian obscenity, which sounds something like the old-fashioned American ‘Hooey’; its primary meaning is ‘cock’, but it is used in an extremely wide variety of ways. The third and final letter of the word, with its ‘curl’, mentioned later on in the poem, is Й. The word is of Common Slavonic rather than Tartar origin. The equivalent graffito in English would be a phallic symbol, or the F-word.</span></span></div><div class="p4"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Под стрехою на самом верху<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">непонятно написано ХУ.<br />Тот, кто этот девиз написал,<br />тот дерзнул угрожать небесам.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Сокрушил, словно крепость врагов,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">ветхий храм наших дряхлых богов.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">У небес для забытых людей<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">он исхитил, второй Прометей,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">не огонь, голубой огонек —<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">телевизоры в избах зажег.<br />Он презрел и опасность и боль.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Его печень клюет алкоголь,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">принимающий облик орла,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">но упрямо он пьет из горла,<br />к дому лестницу тащит опять,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">чтобы надпись свою дописать.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Нашей грамоты крепкий знаток,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">он поставит лихой завиток<br />над союзною буквою И,<br />завершая усилья свои.<br />Не берет его русский мороз,<br />не берет ни склероз, ни цирроз,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">ни тоска, ни инфаркт, ни инсульт,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">он продолжит фаллический культ,</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">воплотится в татарском словце</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">с поросячьим хвостом на конце.</span></span></div><style type="text/css"> p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.1px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.1px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; min-height: 15.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.1px 0.0px; font: 10.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} p.p4 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.1px 0.0px; font: 11.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; min-height: 12.0px} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} </style></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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This glittering fir.</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Now I can’t face chopping.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p2"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Not something I’d care to do,</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">cause this tree to perish;</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">round the sky like wind to blow —</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">there’s a job I’d cherish.</span></span></div><div class="p2"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Blithely stirring up a rumpus,</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">shaking all the branches.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Who’s that sitting on a stump?</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I sits. Fed up, I is.</span></span></div><div class="p2"><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">From <i>Чудесный десант</i> (<i>The Miraculous Raid</i>), 1985</span></span></div><div class="p2"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p2"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">(Translation © 2018 G.S. Smith)</span></div><div class="p2"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Песня</span></h2><div class="p1"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="p1"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">В лес пойду дрова рубить,</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">развлекусь немного.<br />Если некого любить,<br />люди любят Бога.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p2"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Ах, какая канитель —<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">любится, не любится.<br />Снег скрипит. Сверкает ель<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Что-то мне не рубится.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p2"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Это дерево губить</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">что-то неохота,<br />ветром по небу трубить —<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">вот по мне работа.</span></span></div><div class="p2"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Он гудит себе гудит,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">веточки качает.<br />На пенечке кто сидит?</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Я сидит, скучает.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></div><style type="text/css"> p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.1px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.1px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; min-height: 15.0px} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} </style></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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Smith)</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Russian ‘making the horns’ here is guarding against the evil eye. The gesture has other meanings, especially in the contexts of criminality and rock music. It is not the equivalent of the British V-sign, which signifies (if the back of the hand faces towards the gesturer) ‘victory’, as with Winston Churchill; or (if the back of the hand faces away from gesturer) ‘f*** off!’. Incidentally, one of Lev Loseff’s least well known but most characteristic publications is his introduction to Barbara Monahan, <i>A Dictionary of Russian Gesture </i>(Ann Arbor: Hermitage, 1983).</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; min-height: 11px;"><br /><h2 style="text-align: left;"><strong class="Cyrl headword" lang="ru" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" xml:lang="ru"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Oтлёт</span></strong></h2></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">и как будто легко я по трапу бежал,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">в то же самое время я как будто лежал</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">неподвижен и счастлив всерьез,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">удивляясь что лица склоненных опухли от слез;</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">и тогда вдруг что-то мелькнуло в помертвелой моей голове,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">я пальцами сделал латинское V</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">(а по-русски, состроил рога).</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Помолитесь за меня, дурака.</span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Captions to Pictures Seen in Childhood</b></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1 </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">He prayed that the Almighty would vouchsafe</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">that he might reach his lodging before evening,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">but when he’d climbed up to the pass, no way</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">of getting down from there seemed in the offing.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In this grim-faced engraver’s work, below, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">far down, are shown the tops of pine trees,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and a bank of boulders with a coat of snow,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">where yesterday an avalanche threw parties.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The snow flew down, his thoughts flew back in time,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">into his dream came waddling a St Bernard </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">with drink to make his dropping off sublime, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and deepen his sleep beneath that snowy burden.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">2 </span><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Bedraggled brushwood standing sentinel</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">on mossy marsh and lakelets’ watery surface,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and there is shown the Christian saint-to-be, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">his crossbow grounded, tense among the bushes.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">His lips are parted slightly, at a loss,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">fist rubbing brow, can’t credit what he’s seeing,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">for he just spied the radiance of the cross</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">between the antlers of this trusting creature.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">How, though, does the engraver show us light?</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">His darting, layered strokes are all-encroaching, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">while light and cross are no more than the slight</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">trace left there by the absence of his touching.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">3</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">One stroke — this brig cants over much too far.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Its sail is tattered. And the cliffs too close now.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Dark. Storm. Wind. Rain. And too close is the shore,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">with all its seaweed, rocks, and foaming rollers.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">One stroke for each: dark, storm, rain, howling wind.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Acute the cant. The coast. Cliffs over-canted.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">One tiny spot of light, that’s all, is to be found,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">made by a porthole in the after cabin. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In there a tiny passenger is shown,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">who seems oblivious to what’s proceeding, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">before him he has set a volume down,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and it’s just lying there, and he’s just reading. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">4 </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Down in a pit is shown a coiled-up snake,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">its body twined round with another body;</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">it seems that, less accomplished than Doré,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the engraver’s fashioned them to look too solid.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Rotate the picture, turn yourself around,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">there’ll still be an enigma to this spiral—</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">you can’t be sure whether it’s coiling down</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">or up, the way that some great force has spun it.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">So, artist, do you think you got it right?</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Up, down—so what, when they ping back full circle,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">these bodies that are balled up now so tight,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">heaven’s curlicue together with hell’s whirlpool?</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">5</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Frost on the windows, ice on the canals,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">cars going down with colds so that they splutter,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">while Europe sends the final warmth she has</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">to her fringe city, after which comes tundra.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This is where city lights can scarcely save</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the skaters at their twilight-time gyrations. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">All people here know well that Christmas Eve</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">may bring with it some dangerous visitations.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Rosebush transforms to icebush, this is where;</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">while through the window, edging the engraving,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">reindeer are herded by grim-faced dog-drivers.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The time will come when I shall go back there.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Подписи к виденным в детстве картинкам</span></span></h2><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Молился, чтоб Всевышний даровал </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">до вечера добраться до привала, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">но вот он взобрался на перевал,<br />а спуска вниз как бы и не бывало.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Художник хмурый награвировал </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">верхушки сосен в глубине провала, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">вот валунов одетый снегом вал </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">там, где вчера лавина пировала. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Летел снег вниз, летели мысли вспять,<br />в сон сен-бернар вошел вразвалку с неким </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">питьем, чтоб было слаще засыпать<br />и крепче спать засыпанному снегом. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">2</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Болотный мох и бочажки с водой </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">расхристанный валежник охраняет, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">и христианства будущий святой </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">застыл в кустах и арбалет роняет.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Он даже приоткрыл слегка уста,<br />трет лоб рукой, глазам своим не веря, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">увидев воссияние креста<br />между рогов доверчивого зверя. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">А как гравер изображает свет?<br />Тем, что вокруг снованье и слоенье </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">штрихов, а самый свет и крест — лишь след </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">отсутствия его прикосновенья.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">3</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Штрих — слишком накренился этот бриг.<br />Разодран парус. Скалы слишком близки.<br />Мрак. Шторм. Ветр. Дождь. И слишком близко брег, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">где водоросли, валуны и брызги. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Штрих — мрак. Штрих — шторм. Штрих — дождь. Штрих — ветра вой. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Крут крен. Крут брег. Все скалы слишком круты. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Лишь крошечный кружочек световой — </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">иллюминатор кормовой каюты.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Там крошечный нам виден пассажир, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">он словно ничего не замечает,<br />он пред собою книгу положил,<br />она лежит, и он ее читает. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">4</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Змей, кольцами свивавшийся в дыре,<br />и тело, переплетшееся с телом, —<br />гравер, не поспевавший за Доре,<br />должно быть, слишком твердыми их сделал.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Крути картинку, сам перевернись, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">но в том-то и загадочность спирали, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">что не поймешь — ее спирали вниз </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">иль вверх ее могуче распирали. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Куда, художник, ты подзалетел —<br />что верх да низ! когда пружинит звонко </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">клубок переплетенных этих тел,<br />виток небес и адская воронка. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">5</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Мороз на стеклах и в каналах лед, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">автомобили кашляют простудно, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">последнее тепло Европа шлет<br />в свой крайний город, за которым тундра. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Здесь конькобежцев в сумерках едва </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">спасает городское освещенье.<br />Все знают — накануне Рождества </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">опасные возможны посещенья.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Куст роз преображается в куст льда, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">а под окном, по краешку гравюры, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">оленей гонят хмурые каюры. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Когда-нибудь я возвращусь туда.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From <i>Чудесный десант</i> (<i>The Miraculous Raid</i>), 1985</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Translation © 2018 G.S. Smith)</span></span><br /><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A translation of this poem by Henry Pickford: </span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://levloseff.blogspot.com/2012/11/captions-to-pictures-seen-in-childhood.html">http://levloseff.blogspot.com/2012/11/captions-to-pictures-seen-in-childhood.html</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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Even she can’t get round him,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">that creature in rustling silk.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">He proffers himself, quite grandly,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">what’s left of our cognac to drink.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Tobacco, cognac, catarrh have</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">done a sandpaper job on his throat.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The guitar slides back in its cover.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">He dons his imported coat.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">He’s studying the stains on the linen,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">is our singer, all moustache and nose,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and no one retains the least inkling</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">what was happening a moment ago.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">No heart-swelling love’s been ignited, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">no summons to feats at high pitch,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the historical brow of the tyrant</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">will make no hysterical twitch.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The vodka’s gone. Song done and dusted.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">We ate, though it wasn’t a feast.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">How it grows on you, this kind of music.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">What matters, though, more than the rest —</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">not the humour, the sly little whatsit, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">not the v-sign that no-one can see —</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">it’s the pluck of those strings in waltz time,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">one-two-three, one-two-three, one-two-three.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From <i>Чудесный десант</i> (<i>The Miraculous Raid</i>), 1985</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">(Translation © 2017 G.S. Smith)</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The negative hero here is the poet, dramatist, and ‘bard’ Aleksandr Galich (19 October 1918-15 December 1977); for a contrasting view of his merits, see Alexander Galich, <i>Songs and Poems,</i> translated and with an introduction by G.S.Smith (Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1983), and also G.S.Smith, <i>Songs to Seven Strings</i> (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1984). </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xRZG-6K1XVk/WjO-wN3UPYI/AAAAAAAAX-k/ut6crfXMYQc_ZeymC67J4xMof0RDmGZqgCLcBGAs/s1600/Alexsandr_Galich-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xRZG-6K1XVk/WjO-wN3UPYI/AAAAAAAAX-k/ut6crfXMYQc_ZeymC67J4xMof0RDmGZqgCLcBGAs/s1600/Alexsandr_Galich-3.jpg" /></a></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Спой еще, Александр Похмелыч, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">я тебя на такси отвезу... </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Разгулялась пузатая мелочь, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">подвывает, пускает слезу. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Он не станет. Его не упросит </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">даже эта в шуршащем шелку. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Он себе одному преподносит </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">что осталось у нас коньяку. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Табака, коньяка и катара </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">прогулялся по горлу наждак.<br />В свой чехол заползает гитара. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Заграничный напялен пиджак. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Изучает на скатерти пятна </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">наш певец, и усат, и носат,<br />и уже никому не понятно, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">что творилось минуту назад.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Не наполнится сердце любовью </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">и на подвиг нас не поведет,<br />и тиран исторической бровью </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">истерически не поведет. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Водка выпита. Песенка спета. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Мы поели того и сего.<br />Как привязчива музыка эта. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Но важнее, важнее всего —</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">нет, не юмор, не хитрое что-то,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">не карманчики с фигой внутри — </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">просто дерганье струн на три счета:</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">раз-два-три, раз-два-три, раз-два-три. </span></div><div><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></div><div class="grammarly-disable-indicator"></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It’s my heart going wrong,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">or an old love forgot,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">or a fragment of song</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">that a squeezebox grinds out,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">or my joints aching bad,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I’m not young, maybe that,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Khasbulat, bonny lad,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Khasbulat, Khasbulat,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">it’s no palace, your house,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">much like mine, I agree,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">you’re a little church mouse,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and the same goes for me,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">our two homes are alike,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">with the walls needing paint,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">not so poor though am I</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">as to turn into saint,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">rich enough I am not</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">to fetch drink in and share,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">or a spade, cut-price lot</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">at the local hardware,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">chores and cares all around</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">made our arteries hard,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">now a new winter’s sound </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">comes and scrapes at our heart.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From <i>Чудесный десант</i> (<i>The Miraculous Raid</i>), 1985.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span>(Translation © 2017 G.S. Smith)</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The poem takes off from ‘Khasbulat’, an old but well-known melodramatic vengeance ballad featuring stereotypical Caucasian tribal masculinity and mores. See <a href="http://www.russian-records.com/details.php?image_id=22500"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 255); color: blue; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">http://www.russian-records.com/details.php?image_id=22500</span></a>. The words are by a certain A.Ammosov, and the tune by the ethnographer Olga Khristoforovna Agreneva-Slavianskaia (1847-1920), both of whom are otherwise forgotten, their work in this case having ‘become folklore’. In the song, a prince asks Khasbulat, who is old and poor, to cede him his young wife in return for rich rewards, but Khasbulat responds that the day before he saw the couple together, and later stabbed her to death. The prince whips out his sabre and beheads the old man, and then jumps into the river and drowns.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">ХБ-2 </span></span></h2><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">То ль на сердце нарыв, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">то ли старый роман,<br />то ли старый мотив, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">ах, шарманка, шарман, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">то ль суставы болят, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">то ль я не молодой, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Хас-Булат, Хас-Булат, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Хас-Булат удалой, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">бедна сакля твоя, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">бедна сакля моя, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">у тебя ни шиша,<br />у меня ни шиша, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">сходство наших жилищ </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">в наготе этих стен,<br />но не так уж я нищ, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">чтобы духом блажен,<br />и не так я богат,<br />чтоб сходить за вином, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 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-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">D’you hear me, the shutters are open, hey you, rise and shine,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">unwashed and uncombed, as you are, just get yourself out,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">to where some enamel’s been chipped from the rim of the sky,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and daybreak holds forth with its whistling and steaming spout.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">How time is bent back in this looking-glass small world of ours.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">How minutes pass slowly but years rush on by, crazily.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Try checking your token, the first three digits it shows,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">for sure there’s a three, then a seven, and next comes the quee-</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">navigating her wings, one left and the other one right,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">hop-hop she goes, over the tablecloth and the green baize,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">it’s warm, and that ‘drinky-drink-drink’ that was stuck in your throat</span></span><br /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">alerted the black-barrelled hunter who lay there in wait.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">You plump little quail, your head full of misty stuff,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">what on earth was that song that you sang for a farthing’s hire,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">you took wing for that pittance, not all that much higher than the turf,</span></span><br /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">enough, though, to put you square in the line of fire.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span>(Translation © 2017 G.S. Smith)</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From <i>Чудесный десант</i> (<i>The Miraculous Raid</i>), 1985</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Ты слышишь ли, створки раскрылись, але, не кемарь, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">как есть, неумыт и нечесан, ступай за порог,<br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">туда, где от краешка неба отбита эмаль<br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">и носик рассвета свистит, выпуская парок.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Как время изогнуто в этом зеркальном мирке. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Как длятся минуты, как бешено мчатся года. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Проверь-ка три первые цифры в своем номерке: </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">конечно же, тройка, конечно, семерка и да- </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">махая старательно левым и правым крылом, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">вприпрыжку по скатерти и над зеленым столом,<br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">и тянет теплом, и торчащее в горле колом </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">«пить-пить» встрепенуло охотника с черным стволом. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Ах, перепел жирный, с туманной твоей головой, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">ну, Господи, что ты такое на грошик пропел, </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">взлетел на копейку, ну только едва над травой,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">но все же достаточно, чтобы попасть под прицел. </span></div><div><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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