Margarita Siourina "IN THE PARK BENEATH THE SMOLNY CATHEDRAL WALLS "

Utterly blue is the heaven,
Cathedral is solemn, white…
«Circuses! Bread and circuses!»
Rings on the water grow wide.

The fountain’s spray is trembling
To set fragrant blossoms ablaze;
My mind is obscured vaguely
And floating with my thoughtless gaze.

A boy is so still, not focusing…
A stranger like me in the dew.
«Circuses! Bread and circuses!»
And heaven. The bluest of the blue.

St. Petersburg, May-July, 1994,
Margarita Siourina




Photos: Margarita Siourina