Andrei Sen-Senkov Poems

the embryo is growing
obediently repeating all the stages of evolution

now it already has one ear for the word to go in
and another ear for it to fly out
...

every night I dream
that I'm building a big grey house
out of a single dust mote
it's a special mote
...

first you forget the names of places
then nouns
then verbs
out of I love you
...

an ancient roman soldier
getting his vision tested
had to be able to see
...

the sailor waves the signal flags
surrounding himself with the multicoloured letters of the word love

he doesn't know he's hiv-positive
...

on the ark noah lodges stegosaurs tyrannosaurs plesiosaurs
brontosaurs archaeopteryxes iguanodons diplodocuses triceratops
they are small and smiley-faced
...

the east german stasi
had a method for driving people insane
when a person would leave the house
...

as a child peter the great had a toy -
a horse carved out of linden
and covered with a real stallion's
skin.
...

the father finds out that his six-month-old child
is hard of hearing.

he starts working tenaciously on his son.
...

отец узнает что его полугодовалый ребенок
плохо слышит.

он начинает упорно заниматься сыном.
результатов почти нет.

в один из вечеров отец останавливается

вздыхает
берет ребенка на руки
и ставит на проигрыватель старую
пластинку джона колтрейна.
делает максимально громко.
это альбом Giant Steps.

сын замирает.
он впервые в жизни слышит как
топают босиком лилипуты.
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