ON A FARMSTEAD

...A little girl on a clay bench:

cheep-cheep-cheep!..

A dog on a chain.

Something’s buzzing in the steppe.


Her mother runs from the garden.

something’s buzzing in the steppe.

“O, my world, it’s a storm coming!”

something’s buzzing in the steppe.


No, Momma, it’s not a storm,”

I read about it: “it’s a squadron.”

Mother trembles from terror,

the livestock bellows in the pen...


And the sky swirled

in several hundred circles,

and then returned,

and the buzzing grew distant.


the buzzing grew distant –

1924