{"id":231,"date":"2003-06-28T00:07:23","date_gmt":"2003-06-28T08:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/blogs\/?p=231"},"modified":"2003-06-28T00:07:23","modified_gmt":"2003-06-28T08:07:23","slug":"10567840439150731","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/10567840439150731\/","title":{"rendered":"10567840439150731"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Ends to the Beginning<\/a> is an online bilingual anthology of Russian poetry. Here is a Pasternak poem, about blogging I suppose…<\/p>\n

Let’s scatter our words…<\/a><\/B>
\nby Boris Pasternak<\/p>\n

My friend, you will ask, who ordains
\nthat the speech of a blessed fool should burn?<\/I><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s scatter our words
\nAs the garden scatters amber zest,
\nAbsentmindedly and generously
\nBit by bit by bit.<\/p>\n

Let’s not discuss
\nWhy the leaves are patterned
\nSo formally
\nWith ruby and lemon.<\/p>\n

Who welled up with needles
\nAnd gushed through the slats,
\nThe floodgate blinds,
\nOnto the music books in the shelf.<\/p>\n

Who dyed the outdoor mat
\nWith rowan berries
\nLike a canvas of diaphanous,
\nTrembling italics.<\/p>\n

You will ask, who ordains
\nThat August should be great,
\nFor whom is nothing too small,
\nWho is absorbed with etching<\/p>\n

A maple leaf
\nAnd who, from the time of Ecclesiastes,
\nHasn’t quit his post
\nHewing alabaster?<\/p>\n

You will ask, who ordains
\nThat the September lips
\nOf asters and dahlias should suffer?
\nThat the fine leaves of broom
\nShould waft from greying caryatids
\nOnto the damp flagstones
\nOf autumn hospitals?<\/p>\n

You will ask, who ordains?
\n – The all-powerful God of details,
\nThe all-powerful God of love,
\nOf Jagailos and Jadwigas.<\/p>\n

I don’t know if the dark riddle
\nOf the tomb has been solved;
\nBut life, like autumn
\nSilence, is in the details.<\/DIV><\/p>\n

Via: LanguageHat<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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