Надя [Nadya] [English translation]

I am a redhead bitch with ragged tail.

My dinner - snow, my puppies - at the bottom of the channel.

I cut a throat with my broken tusk,

I lapped up cooling blood.

I have been kicked by hundred legs.

My face has met a bunch of burning logs.

I drink from puddles of the oiled roads

Reflection of the sky that doesn’t see me.

Seeking warmth in breathing of wastewaters

And limply dragging broken leg of mine,

I thought about when peace would come for me

And put soft cotton silence all around.

I always thought that children were the evil

And that the world for them was just a butterfly on the tip of a pin.

However I forgave them always for

That they sometimes gave shelter to the cur.

I once was listening to rain, it told me

These drops once were the moisture of a sea

Warmed by the sun among the wondrous rocks

And any sorrow could be drowned in it.

And so I left, through hunger of long days,

For the shores of my only hope.

But it was only getting colder

And the sea turned out to be made of snow.

I would give anything for just being

Someone else’s, here on the bottom of the Universe.

To finally officially cool

In caring hands of ordinary love.

I am a redhead bitch with ragged tail

My dinner - snow, my puppies - at the bottom of the channel