1. About Limits, 161
  2. About Love, 103
  3. [Again sick], 140
  4. Airman, 172
  5. [Along the threads of veins], 133
  6. [Already, no more suffering, no …], 76
  7. [Among the men some carved-bone dice …], 113
  8. [And also— …], 34
  9. [And God saw], 138
  10. [And it is cold here …], 171
  11. [… And there was beauty], 91
  12. Another Woman, 61
  13. Archangel Cathedral, 146
  14. [Armpits smell of linden blossom], 138
  15. [As old salts know], 181
  16. [as you and i stand long], 182
  17. At the stop, 23
  18. [Autumn your bellringing …], 34
  19. Autumnal Equinox, 25
  1. Backward Sound, 86
  2. [Beneath the flakes of Russian snow], 14
  3. [Better this way …], 37
  4. [Between hope and failure], 106
  5. [Beyond is where the passersby end], 181
  6. [Beyond Siberia again Siberia], 27
  7. [Bird, start up your moan …], 67
  8. [A bomb said to a city], 85
  9. [The boy bears a gray shield], 165
  10. [breadcrumbs falling from the table], 101
  11. Brief reflection of the greatness of God, 185
  1. [Calm rocks to sleep in your usual place], 18
  2. Cassandra to Agamemnon, 85
  3. [Chameleons are fine], 17
  4. Christmas Eve, 19
  5. [city of summer …], 182
  6. [Close of day], 23
  7. [cockle-antarctica], 201
  8. Conversation with a Cat, 167
  9. Cornflowers, 93
  10. [Create me a world], 190
  11. Crimea, 179
  1. A Day at Home, 35
  2. [death covers up nakedness], 54
  3. [Do I hold the past in my hands], 65
  4. [Don’t let me leave you …], 116
  5. Dust, 129
  1. [The earth is burning], 133
  2. Elegy to Atlantis, 149
  3. [Epiphanies], 53
  4. Evening at Tsarskoe Selo, 11
  5. [Every few weeks …], 50
  6. [Everybody was going on talking the same talk], 82
  7. [Except for love everything], 161
  1. Flood Songs, 79
  2. [Flowers live faster than rotting of cherries], 54
  3. [for a centenary], 100
  4. [Forgive me that I opened your door silently …], 129
  5. Frida’s Album (Frida Kahlo’s Album), 37
  6. from “Cities,” 47
  7. from “Letter from Memory,” 139
  8. from “On Russian Poetry (1996–2000),” 186
  9. from “Signs of Life,” 136
  10. from “Silence,” 29
  11. from the cycle “Erebuni,” 40
  12. [Frost and sun, as needed], 152

  1. Gethsemane, 32
  2. Ghazal, 42
  3. [God is the first snow …], 193
  4. the grant of death, 46
  5. Grass, 135
  1. [He wouldn’t sign the death warrant], 183
  2. Heaven and Earth, 135
  3. [The heavens are playing with the earth], 122
  4. [Here I am], 49
  5. [houses like piles of children’s books], 55
  1. [I can still make you out], 91
  2. [I catch the smell of beans], 111
  3. [I don’t feel at home where I am], 27
  4. [I, Mariya …], 115
  5. [I meet myself each and every day], 66
  6. [I said to him— …], 43
  7. [I see], 190
  8. [I sit over grief], 134
  9. [I stand and inspect the phenomena drawn up], 105
  10. [I used to be your echo], 187
  11. [I will not be able to explain why], 51
  12. [I wish I could look], 187
  13. [I’d happily survey the world], 16
  14. [I’m being stalked by a bird], 44
  15. [I’m speaking to make you silent], 198
  16. [I’m trying to fit my destiny into], 99
  17. [In Juda desert], 141
  18. In Memory of a Poet, 155
  19. [In the body of the town I’m a pupil], 103
  20. In the Botkin Hospital, 7
  21. [In the branches’ shade], 78
  22. Inconsistent Self-Portrait, 98
  23. [It was such a pearly, pink season], 152
  24. [It’s boring looking at the same old contents], 16
  25. [… I’ve overslept my stop …], 124
  1. Jealousy, 108
  2. The Kite, 179
  1. Lamentation of the Border-Guard, 199
  2. [Let’s fill in the form …], 121
  3. [The light cross of lonely strolls], 121
  4. [Like a faded painting], 114
  5. [Like the earth turning …], 107
  6. [A little sympathy], 189
  7. [Look, a man is flying and …], 75
  8. [The low clouds …], 192
  9. Lullaby for Odysseus, 33
  1. Making Jam in July, 69
  2. [Many films begin with a funeral], 113
  3. Memorial Candle, 167
  4. Morning, 112
  5. [morning sleep], 125
  6. [Mother, squatting hurts], 115
  7. [My eyes are], 44
  8. [my head is spinning to the right], 116
  1. Newspapers on the Plateau, 119
  2. [Night unwraps the true stuff of the world], 117
  3. Notes of a Cold War Veteran, 52
  4. [Now I am a fan of silence], 19
  1. [O caterpillar …], 67
  2. Ode to the Computer, 106
  3. [On an old grand piano], 189
  4. [On the sea-shore …], 28
  5. [On the way to you], 138
  6. [Once I used to study languages …], 131
  1. [Parting makes simple sense], 71
  2. [Penelope, the screaming is all over], 148
  3. [A person is reflected by the whirlpool …], 22
  4. A Phoenician Statuette, 39
  5. The Pilgrims, 93
  6. [Pizza’s a populous island], 82
  7. [The pleated strata of air], 96
  8. [The poet has passed away], 12
  9. [Poor composer], 21
  10. Poor Ruth, 144
  11. A Portrait of the Blockade through Genre Painting, 168
  12. [Potatoes in flower], 23
  13. [Prison, zona, the camps …], 95
  1. [Quiet days and quiet evenings], 109
  1. Rain, 154
  2. [The reflection of a wet finger …], 58
  3. [repairs are like the fall of Pompeii], 99
  4. Repetition, 36
  5. [Rhyme is a woman …], 192
  6. [The rhymes picked me in a ditch], 51
  7. [A rose], 160
  8. [Roundabouts solidly turn], 171
  9. [Ruined so many romances], 105
  10. [Running water is cold …], 74
  11. Russia, 25
  1. [Sailor sailor got ashore], 165
  2. Sant’Alessio, Roma, 154
  3. [Screams and hair come out], 125
  4. [a seagull shrilly in my head], 101
  5. [Shadows of the plane-tree leaves], 110
  6. [She’s calling God …], 188
  7. Shma Yisrael (Hear, O Israel), 194
  8. Silence, 184
  9. [Six charred leaves drift], 133
  10. Sleep soundly, dear poet, 160
  11. [So I stood by and watched], 119
  12. [So much gentleness from unknown men], 20
  13. Solo, 46
  14. [Something from an untidy Russian life], 71
  15. [Sometimes, not often …], 123
  16. Sound Letter, 19
  17. [Space is arched like a sail], 73
  18. [speech is a stream], 99
  19. Spring Scales, 175
  20. Strategy, 197
  21. Subterranean River Poem, 68
  1. [Tarantino’s languor and dreaming back], 140
  2. [Tell me, Comrade God …], 163
  3. [Then there was the rose I fell in love with], 59
  4. Theory of Recruiting, 28
  5. [There is a way to sew wings on arms …], 191
  6. [There the folk museum …], 54
  7. [there were lots of them], 202
  8. [There’s a cinnamon tree …], 127
  9. [they all but cry out], 202
  10. [They cut off my hot water], 162
  11. [This is the way …], 137
  12. Three-Liners, 57
  13. [Thus you lived your life without regret], 147
  14. [Till now], 97
  15. [Time turned inside out], 66
  16. To Await Arrival, 8
  17. [To die. And be born …], 203
  18. To Russian Women, 65
  19. [To sob …], 60
  20. [Today I’m a proper king’s daughter], 165
  21. Tomato, 126
  22. Tortoise, 39
  23. [Total darkness], 97
  24. [… toward morning around seven], 31
  25. Translated from the European, 55
  26. Triptych of Reflection, 107
  27. [The tsar sits on his throne …], 75
  1. [A vacancy instead of you], 88
  2. [The variety of animals …], 201
  1. A Wand, 102
  2. [We live—sometimes], 52
  3. [We’ve all got history on our hands …], 14
  4. [What does the river know of its own bed], 117
  5. [What I drink is not hot …], 52
  6. [What, in July’s honey heat …], 42
  7. [What’s it you’re howling …], 162
  9. [Whenever the prodigal son returns home], 70
  10. [Where are the future’s clawlets?], 163
  11. [Why is she sleeping on some steps], 185
  12. Wild Rose, 183
  13. [The wind paces on the lower branch], 180
  14. [The wind’s mane], 105
  15. [With grown-up clever hands], 194
  16. [With much effort …], 73
  1. [You can go on holiday now …], 132