Иосиф Бродский - Квинтет
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Quintet

Mark Strend

I.

Acto twisters. From mouth
Silence is broken. European cities
overtake each other at stations. The smell of soap
Gives the inhabitant of the jungle of the approaching enemy.
Where your foot came down,
White spots appear on the world map.

In the throat tricks. The traveler asks to drink.
Children who need to beat
Accept the air with a shrill cry. Eyelid
twisted. That before the columns, because of
Someone always appears. Even bias the eye
Even in a dream you see a person.

And accumulates as spit in the chest:
"Give me ink and paper, and go
Away! "And the eyelid is twitching. Non-challenged
Behind the wall (as if prayed) increase the yoke.
Monsterness of the brain
gives an unfamiliar room familiar outlines.

II

Sometimes in the desert you hear a voice. You
Pull out the camera capture the features.
But it darkens. Side, cross the joke
with speaking southern, rapid,
monkey, which jumped from the palm trees and, not having time
Become a man, made a prostitute.

It is better to swim by a steamer swinging on the wave,
participating in geography, in blueness, and not
Only in history - this crust sushi.
Better greenland cross, creaking
skiing, leaving behind
Icebergs and Tules Masca.

Alphabet will not let you forget you
The purpose of your travel is the point "B".
There is a raven not to make a raven, like a Karkai;
Lai karany, Rye kept the weed;
there, as over the skin of the animal will soon,
Officers of the General Staff Owl over the stretch card.

III

Thirty-seven years old I look at the fire.
Acto twisters. Palm
Covered later. Policeman taking documents
Entering into another room. Erected
Obelisk ends reluctantly in the clouds,
As a blow to Euclouda, like a comet trail.

Night; Having lived to the stayed, you dinner alone
Himself cattle, myself Mr.
Vobla lies across the big report
about the eruse volcano damn know where
In other words, in someone else's environment,
Relieving the tail in the "Latest Forbudes".

I understand only the buzz of flies
On the eastern bazaars! On the sidewalk in two
steps from the hotel, fish that fell on the net,
Traveler catches air open mouth:
Strong pain, taking it on that
continues light.

IV

"Where is it?" - asks, smuggling Vikhor,
nephew. And, wandering on the folds of the mountains
"Here," says the niece. Correction swings
In the old garden. On the table bouquet
violet. The sun is blind parquet.
From the living room there will be a cell phone.

At night above the placo hanging the moon.
From the boulder is separated by the shadow of an elephant.
In the silver, the stream is there no trust.
Lonely room sheet
White comes (dark) just nude -
Painting of an unknown brush.

In the spring in the mud digging the worn ant,
Rook appears, the creatures of other blood;
The foliage covers the barrel at its bend.
Autumn hawk gives circles
Over the seams, counting chickens. And on the shoulders of the servant
Sagita white jacket dangles ...

V.

Was the word saying? And if yes, -
in what language? Was there a boy? And how much ice
need to throw in a glass to stop the Titanic
thoughts? Does the whole role of particles remember?
What is able to think at the sight of birds
in a botany aquarium?

Now imagine an absolute emptiness.
Place without time. Actually air. In T.
And to the other, and in the third direction. Just Mecca
air. Oxygen, hydrogen. And in me
Melko twisted day after day