Аннотация: Авторский перевод на английский стихотворения "Прикровенность" Ноябрь 2020, опубликовано в журнале "Ygdrasil" Vol XXVIII, Issue 11, No.331. http://users.synapse.net/kgerken/Y-2011.pdf
Alexei Vesselov
PRIKROVENNOST"
(THE SECRECY)
Dedicated to Vyacheslav Kryzhanovsky
The Symbols:
ː - long vowel.
" - pause, also breathing.
_ - is like a moment of decision before a long pause.
() - brackets also signify indecision as well as variability.
▓ - this should be concealed.
. - point as a whole.
The thing
Is hidden under the leaves.
Perhaps
Not the only one.
- Is this an important thing?
- I don"t know.
It shouldn"t be revealed.
It"s not there for that.
When they wrote
About the yellow leaf
Lying on the wind -
I haven"t been here.
I am not present here.
Nothing betrays
My presence.
I("m) (have been) empty.
And everything
Is v[iː]sible through me.
But I still
Can"t see anything myself.
When everything seemed like
It was just there
I "" was even less there.
The trace is gone, remember your name.
The refuge of existence
Was overcrowded
And I hid myself in the folds of the terrain.
_ We need to take a break here.
So somehow it all became.
Little by little
I"m breathing in the (autumn) air and listening.
I"m not listening to something specific, but in general.
Still trying to hear (something).
Maybe " nothing has no need to be recognized,
Not even through the most delicate method?
And even if nothing happens
To what just has emerged,
Will the same thing happen
To what is just about to appear?
But it must be concealed too.
Like water underneath the water.
" " "
When I listen to the
Splashing fountain streams
"
Water flows
Out of the mouths of three frogs.
Then it disappears.
.
- There is a lack of texture here.
- There is not enough matter here,
The variety of objects and phenomena does not strike my imagination.
"
- Why do you say so?
Passing cars
Disperse the shadows of the leaves.
The unevenness of the sidewalk opens.
The unevenness of thinking is revealed, __
Which now cannot be hidden.
However,
This has not been ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓.
First
The sharp stones of the fence,
"
Then -
The hard leaves of the hedge
Hide in the shadow of my hand.
What I"m hiding
Will not remain a secret for a long time.
"
Once I give the show away -
And it"s gone.
.
I tell everything as it is.
"
- But how?
- Yes / no / hard to say.
_ We need to take a break here.
- Try to express yourself mysteriously, but concretely at the same time.