Anatoly Kudryavitsky
Anatoly Kudryavitsky (born 17 August 1954) is a Russian/Irish poet, novelist, translator. He writes mainly in English and Russian.
Poems
[edit]Shadow of Time (2005)
[edit]- When you kill wolves
people die.
- What shall we do
after we learn what we'll do:
that is the question.
- Europe is shrinking, but America
is broadening.
- The bigger the house,
the smaller the occupants.
- Polluters of void.
- "Women don't survive here,"
a woman of eighty said.
- ...nothing else left but
to watch eternity
breaking up
into human splinters.
- The century has started with
the crime of the century.
- Leviathan learning to overcome time
- The knack of living —
how skilfully it kills!
- ...letters of a burning book
dance in flame not every time
and not every time literally.
- Once a century
the world is divided
into before and after.
- 'Sorry, we gave you
a wrong life,' they said
not too apologetically.
'Will you begin anew?'
- Caliban fights the Taliban
Morning at Mount Ring (2007)
[edit]- summer night —
blossoming in the pond,
water-lilies and stars
- a leaflet about
behaviour on the streets —
the wind feels it all over
- autumn wind...
I yearn for the place
from where it blows
- bamboo stems —
their memories
of the sun
- icy beach
a child treads upon
broken bits of seashells
- murmuring surge
mussel shells
slightly open
- hazel catkins
in the mizzling rain...
a long, long dream
- autumn storm
a cormorant sits
on the throne of winds
- river mist
barges transport coal
in both directions
- autumn dusk
a cat rubs its shadow
against fishermen's legs
