- 1. Envy
I envy. This secret
I have not revealed before.
I know there is somewhere a boy
whom I greatly envy.
...
- 2. I Would Like
I would like
to be born
in every country,
have a passport
...
- 3. Fears
Fears are dying out in Russia
like the ghosts of bygone years,
and only like old women, here and there,
they still beg for alms on the steps of a church.
...
- 4. Glasha, Bride Of The Sea
She knows the river, net and hook,
and hunts it deep as any.
Love opens her a petaled look:
'I couldn't care a penny!
...
- 5. Once People
Once people get under my skin,
they never find the exit.
They romp around,
fill my insides with their song and dance,
...
- 6. The Execution Of Stenka Razin
In Moscow, the white-walled capital,
a thief runs with a poppy-seed loaf down the street.
He is not afraid of being lynched today.
There isn't time for loaves...
...
- 7. Eight Year Old Poet
On the platform, in Pasternak's unerased footprints,
leaving behind your own print,
you stand a moment with me in farewell,
eight-year-old poet.
...
- 8. People
No people are uninteresting.
Their fate is like the chronicle of planets.
Nothing in them in not particular,
...
- 9. The Heirs Of Stalin
Mute was the marble. Mutely glimmered the glass.
Mute stood the sentries, bronzed by the breeze.
Thin wisps of smoke curled over the coffin.
And breath seeped through the chinks
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