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Anzhelina Polonskaya
A Voice
A voice bouncing off boarded-up windows, a quivering voicewithin walls like well-driven nails.
A throaty voice, as if of a caged dove
groping through deaf darkness into bunches of hanging fingers.
Through them, through the air heated by snow,
torn apart like fabric, like flesh that has known the scalpel.
How silent it is! Either a hot flash on the cheek
or simply snowflakes melting and rolling down like tears.
That voice! Free, unmaimed by wheels, not pursued,
edgy, floating beneath the damp stone vaults,
remarked only by the lightning glances of parishioners
who will remain in this blue twilight, today or tomorrow.
From: A Voice
Publisher: Northwestern UP, Evanston, 2004
Publisher: Northwestern UP, Evanston, 2004
Голос
Голос
Голос, бьющийся о слепые окна, дрожащий голос,в эти стены, словно и не случайно набиты гвозди.
Голос из горла, как будто из неволи голубь,
натыкаясь в тесноте на глухих, на пальцев свисающих гроздья.
Между ними, между, в калёный снегами воздух,
вспоротый, как ткань, как плоть, узнавшая скальпель.
Тишина какая! То ли горячее по щеке, то ли просто
хлопья с неба тают и скатываются по ней в виде капель.
Голос! Не пойман, колёсами не покалечен, не загнан,
нервный, летящий под сыреющий камень сводов.
Вслед – только взгляды-молнии прихожан, сегодня, завтра,
остающихся в синих сумерках своего прихода.
© 1999, Anzhelina Polonskaya
From: Голос
Publisher: Podkova, Moscow
From: Голос
Publisher: Podkova, Moscow
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A Voice
A voice bouncing off boarded-up windows, a quivering voicewithin walls like well-driven nails.
A throaty voice, as if of a caged dove
groping through deaf darkness into bunches of hanging fingers.
Through them, through the air heated by snow,
torn apart like fabric, like flesh that has known the scalpel.
How silent it is! Either a hot flash on the cheek
or simply snowflakes melting and rolling down like tears.
That voice! Free, unmaimed by wheels, not pursued,
edgy, floating beneath the damp stone vaults,
remarked only by the lightning glances of parishioners
who will remain in this blue twilight, today or tomorrow.
From: A Voice
Publisher: 2004, Northwestern UP, Evanston
Publisher: 2004, Northwestern UP, Evanston
A Voice
A voice bouncing off boarded-up windows, a quivering voicewithin walls like well-driven nails.
A throaty voice, as if of a caged dove
groping through deaf darkness into bunches of hanging fingers.
Through them, through the air heated by snow,
torn apart like fabric, like flesh that has known the scalpel.
How silent it is! Either a hot flash on the cheek
or simply snowflakes melting and rolling down like tears.
That voice! Free, unmaimed by wheels, not pursued,
edgy, floating beneath the damp stone vaults,
remarked only by the lightning glances of parishioners
who will remain in this blue twilight, today or tomorrow.
From: A Voice
Publisher: 2004, Northwestern UP, Evanston
Publisher: 2004, Northwestern UP, Evanston
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