#Mikhail Yeryomin

[majestativa]

An autumn day, susceptible to sin and tears, Will understand silence and repentance.

— Mikhail Yeryomin, Selected Poems: 1957-2009, (2014)

[finita--la--commedia]

Perspicuity’s angular seedpods, A primordial form of dimension, All of Russia, its miscreants, credence, And the cranes’ heady scent from the marshes: To find this in autumnal manuscripts, Where the slime deposited traces, Where the pages, as cupolas’ onion-leaves, Hide their teardrops in creases.

Mikhail Yeryomin (born 1936), translated from the Russian by D. MacFadyen    “Боковитые зерна премудрости, Изначальную форму пространства, Всероссийскую святость и смутность И болот журавлиную пряность Отыскивать в осенней рукописи, Где следы оставила слякоть, Где листы, словно листья луковицы, Слезы прячут в складках.”

[majestativa]

Midnight constellation, A pond —lunar lapping— without a ripple, And —shadows, shadows, shadows...— acoustical solitude.

— Mikhail Yeryomin, Selected Poems: 1957-2009, (2014)

[majestativa]

Is thirst more sempiternal [...] than water?

— Mikhail Yeryomin, Selected Poems: 1957-2009, (2014)

[majestativa]

The voices [...] within these fragmented walls and vaults.

— Mikhail Yeryomin, Selected Poems: 1957-2009, for Valery Gerasimov, (2014)

[majestativa]

In the Garden of the Hesperides.

— Mikhail Yeryomin, Selected Poems: 1957-2009, (2014)