Now There Are Always Snows Poem by Gennadij Ajgi

Like snow the Lord that is
and is what is the snows
when the soul is what is

the snows the soul the light
and all is only this
that those like death that is
that like them too it is

confess that it is so
among light darkness is
when once again the snows
Oh-God-Again-The-Snows
how can it be it is

and is not to be checked
as corpses are and not

oh Deathmask-Land that is
no question that it is
then when the People verb
which signifies is not

and that such being is
what is this doing here
the Face is such a Mask
it seems there only is
the land Darkness-and-Face

the Epoch-such-a-corpse

and one there is that is
when straightway they are not
— oh God again the snows! —
they are not one thing is
only the Deathness-Land

it is as is and not
and only by this is
but is what only is

miracle sudden swirl
there is no Deadness-Land
oh God again the snows
the soul the snows the light

Oh God again the snows

but be there there are none
the snows my friend the snows
the soul the light the snow

oh God again the snows

and snow that is there is

Translated from Russian by Peter France