- Translated by Maria Bloshteyn
- russian text: https://kopilkapoetry.org/?p=721
Darkness is gathering once again,
the armies of gloom close ranks.
Who drove my motherland insane?
Who ordered it to grow fangs?
Those on the verge of going mad
crumble to dust and sand,
and out of sand make for themselves
a town that armies can’t invade.
I watch the two of us pass homes
that tumble down by stages
in steadily vanishing rows.
Foregoing history’s endless tomes
are scattered along the road.
A rustle of crumbling pages.
Letters senseless and dead.
Michael Ayzenberg
Mikhail Aizenberg (b. 1948) is one of the best-known and most influential living Russian poets, recipient of the 2003 Andrei Bely Prize and other literary awards. His writings were never published during the Soviet period. In post-Soviet Russia, Mikhail published five books of poetry and two books of essays on contemporary Russian poetry.
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