My sister Lifes overflowing today,
spring rain shattering itself like glass,
but people with monocles still complain,
and sting, politely, like snakes in the grass.
The elders have their logic of course,
certainly yours is foolish, no doubt:
that eyes and lawns glow lilac in storms,
and sweet perfume blows from the south.
That in May, when traveling you see
the timetable on the Kamyshin line,
the Bibles penned no less magnificently,
while in reading it youre mesmerised.
That sunset has only to show a village,
girls crowding the track as we flee,
and I find that its not my stop today,
the sun offering its sympathy.
With three splashes the bell swims by,
Sorry, not here: its apologys far.
Burning night seeps under the blind,
the steppe plunges, from step to star.
Winking, blinking, sweetly somewhere,
my love, a fata-morgana, sleeps yet,
while, like my heart, splashed on platforms there,
the carriage throws window-light over the steppe.
