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СКАЧАТЬ And then I’ve heard

      Again that «of the tomb» inside my mind,

      («Should be there tomb?»63…) and once again of that

      What «sad way off» could be the joyous laugh.

      «However, I find now it’s enough

      Of talking for tonight; we’ll do next time.» —

      «Where’re you going?» – Me-seen, he moved back.

      «Wine ist too earthly luck. Before the dark,

      I’m going to have cicuta64 now —

      The drink all-philosophiest! Your wow!» —

      No! He lifted up his nowhere-from cup,

      And, smiling sage, he «hadlle»65 in one gulp,

      And, like that in the strange cartoon, turned green,

      Turned blue then, and so soon all-disappeared.

      All, so spontaneously!… No, I wasn’t feared

      Neither I was satisfied; timelessly,

      Seem, a last question of the Theme we’ve tried,

      Was keeping alchemize my loaded mind,

      And the effect was felt like limbo thought

      Grotesquely-dissolved in mount of sights

      Of all subsequently awaken fancies.

      It was all coming up from stranger words

      Made wilder dancing of the scene-to-world.

      The Provocation how fast was rising

      From the back-imagined talk. …That “’bout tomb»,

      That “’bout dead», that “’bout doom and light»; —

      As if these Two, sane-eyed, sat there, side to side,

      At their philosophic table of the Time,

      Whilst all around, full of common cries

      From yet tonight, the witnesses of our insight,

      Beings too-voluntarous, rose to unite

      And all got closer, and acted there blind,

      And some were just to fight then. All images,

      All characters to find… Dude Fonomore,

      With others, fans of End, Satirehood, and…

      Madder-looking creature broke the hand, then,

      Of the Dead Wall’s Clock, and picture changed all.

      And all, so suddenly, went to behold:

      Oh, that was news unique! that opened wide,

      That newly-viewed field there was; – that hugely…

      Laid all o’er there… corpse. Bigger than house.

      Much bigger than the airplane or gardens

      Some, – the Corpse of War, dread on the sun.

      And ’twas all full of moving…! life, not life, —

      What could I call it like? The crawls, all sounds,

      Those all expressions, parasitic mess,

      All from inside came out; – ants not ants,

      Not so the worms, but looked like flags and guns,

      In tones and tints, materialized moods

      Of things in shape, in shade, dead sentiments.

      …The threats of vision stopped, view lost its ends

      Dissolved in shouts for the needed Grave

      That time, when my stressed psyche invoked again

      Back to my consciousness, that for me then

      To be a here-man. And here I am. – Think,

      Else, what I can say is that, when my old mind,

      Impressed a lot, went wondering alone

      Of that if ever could be right to grow

      Our seductive «Carny’s theme» at all, —

      If e’er we’d find a way to bury doubts

      (Oh, what a wisest thought!) «bout Death of War,

      So it can’t rise again, per rotten chance; —

      To this, I felt, however, but a nerve

      Of Human inspiration, – dreaming then

      Of sage and dispute to be back again.

(08.05.2014, Moscow —01.08.2014, dachaby S. Posad)

      The Red Wood

      The sun of this Spring awoke me,

      With the Voice from the Sleep it rose,

      From the Doubt of Thought, it took me

      Into world, where the Red Truth grows.

      «How often you’ve had the Red Day?» —

      That mystery teller have led; —

      «The word to be fair on your eye-way,

      By magus the Nature be spread.»

      Dumb, I have stepped into wood mine;

      How felt I to see that all new:

      The birches not white! – the red line

      Mystify the strange poetic view.

      How could‘ve that happen, oh, tell me? —

      Is’t a sign of Red Horse? Skye cries?66

      Like the shades, blood with o’erwhelming,

      Those Life’s witnesses stands and sighs.

      Human mind – fatalist-dreamer!

      All the fancies in time, behold,

      Paints the things – fairer to grimmer, —

      All embodied in real world.

      No image stays off-the-Matter,

      Not a map that poein67, but Life;

      On this border, the Fate ne’er flatter

      With that Polis can use for strife.

      Voice had gone… I felt quite awkward.

      These red stems, kind of prophecy…

      Yet I’ve dreamt, what if some Ode-word,

      Incarnated, its author could sее.

(12.05.2014 – 20.05.2014dacha, by Sergiev Posad)

      Nike and Her Head

      Oh, Νίκη! Time though did beheaded you; —

      They dies, day new, to break one of your wings: —

      «Who’s right? who won the Woe-War?"… Not Marce;

      And none is to survive in slaves of his…

      Who is to win upon th’Achiles’ anarchism?68

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<p>63</p>

See the line 8—9.

<p>64</p>

The poison of water hemlock (Cicuta Verosa) was the favorite type of the human-killing poisons before the era of modern cyanide (potassium cyanide) was started. As you all well know, Socratus was cruelly served with it in his prison…

<p>65</p>

This word «haddle» simply came out as a product of mixing apostrophic spelling between the words: «had-it-all» = «haddle». Not that I mentioned a figure of ghost could ever be as like that vulgarly person from commonhood, who after the certain «cup of safety & relaxation», in the certain moment and in the certain manner, would have cry: – «Oh! It’s just a haddle-waddle!»; – whether, me-think, this new-made word quite ironically points the character of action and the used jester closely to alive context of here-described situation within the poem.

<p>66</p>

Red Horse – apocalyptic image from Matth. 6: 4;

<p>67</p>

The proverb «poein» [to poeticize] in old Greek means «to create».

<p>68</p>

In this verse, I’d like to remind you that of why Achiles, a bloodiest hero, is the only personage, amongst all of his friends the Athenians, who was honored to be placed on the Eagean Islands, after his death: if you remember, he’s a one, never looking for the War and the fighting, right from the start; a peacefulest athletic character a nymphan, unlikely to all others, he had no purport and no desire to war at all, surely nor like Menelai the revenger, neither like Odysseus the profit searcher; Achiles the Marmedonian King kept the policy of neutralism on his Islands, and this kind of blissfulness I’ve mentioned to be a part of me-versed vision of a noble Aegenean of his past and his future, both.