Аннотация: Авторский перевод стихотворения "Сторож", опубликован здесь: http://users.synapse.net/kgerken/Y-2112.pdf Русский текст здесь: https://polutona.ru/?show=1102172059
Alexei Vesselov
THE WATCHMAN
Dedicated to Maria Delyanovskaya
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Dark " *
Meadow.
White
Spots
Of pebbles
Of stars
Of chamomiles
Behind
On
Flanks
Of
Deers.
A delicate
Chime "
And clatter
Of horns.
I recall
How the poet " "
Dmitry Chernyshev
Snapped his fingers.
I remember
The professor
Asking me a question
About clapping
With one palm,
And"
I don"t know
What to answer.
"
Сlang,
Сlick,
Tapping.
"
Drop
Of note
Hangs
On a percussion stave.
The (side-)tone
Is understood by
Identity
Creativity
Competitiveness
"
Beauty.
"
The heron
Emerges from the coastal sedge.
It comes out silently, admiring herself.
Who else should it admire?
It is the only heron in this autumn moment.
And the only one who can glide with its wings on the water and carefully look under the bridge.
"
"
A notice with a photo.
Someone
Has found a cat
And gave it to a shelter.
Hope
Everyone
Is doing well.
A notice with a photo.
They ask
Who stole the bike
Or just
Took it for a ride
While drunk.
I hope
Everyone
Has found
Everything.
A notice with a photo.
Children"s toy watch
In the form
Of a teddy dog
Was lost.
I hope
"
That someone hears
Their favorite tune again.
(This is where I remember my cheap dog-like alarm clock with a dial built into the side, standing on its own shelf on the veranda, ticking in the darkness of the autumn night.
"
W a t c h d o g.)
The fountain
Is playing
In the middle of the pond.
And the trees
Are standing around.
What else
Can I say?
What if I just "
List what I saw?
Just listing.
It"s a good literary technique.
No one
Will guess anything.
- Clouds (well, everyone has seen that, It"s nothing)
- There are birch seeds in my empty room.
- The window is open.
- It"s not new, either.
- This list includes
Au | tumn | air
"
As such.
- Red leaves in grass.
- A round chestnut on a wet sidewalk.
- In shallow water two seagulls stand swearing to each other.
- A concrete path leads to the beach. And a trampled path leads to the beach.
- Con | tem | pla | tion.
"
As such, it"s important, isn"t it?
- ...Isn"t it?
- Across the street.
Someone said something
To someone
I couldn"t hear
What exactly.
- There"s one more thing I"d include in this list:
Un | der | stand | ing
"
Exactly as a process.
But
I don"t know what it is.
- I slipped on a fallen apple.
- A slug crawled out onto the path to get warm.
- A long bus rumbles behind the window.
- I know the sound when it comes
- And when it goes.
- This is interesting.
- A black dog is tied up at the lighted store entrance.
- White flowers in the twilight.
- It"s still warm.
- It seems.
That
Autumn is still
On the way.
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" - Here and hereafter - luftpause. Author"s note.