Семь шагов за горизонт [Semʹ shagov za gorizont] [English translation]

The sky swayed beneath two feet

And news flew to a distant land

Thunderstorms and stardust

Bloomed in anxious circles

A free sailing ship, an obedient stream

Seven mischievous steps beyond the horizon

Following the footsteps of determined volunteers

Through the icy depths of dried up rivers

Through the floods of emptied wells

Into candied fear, into undiscovered boats

A long night is like a short little day

Seven mischievous steps beyond the horizon

A punished son didn’t have time to grow up

A whiny oar refused to row

A stubborn parachute didn’t open in due time

And a stray boomerang dared to believe that, as they say —

there’s no turning back

there’s no turning back

there’s no turning back

there’s no turning back

But no, it’s better that you listen as the rain digs its teeth into your palms

Listen as a mouse runs through your throat

Listen as a gap opens under your heart

As winter swirls in your stomach

As an earthy lichen creeps along your spine

As a mountain stream flows into your eye sockets

As a persistent dandelion breaks through the asphalt

As hidden transparent doors rust as quietly as they can

Listen as rye sprouts through your skin

Listen as a mouse runs through your throat

Listen as laughter bubbles in your stomach

Listen as your rainbow runs through echoing veins

A sweet rainbow...

A loud rainbow...

As on a branch of an apple tree a star ripens

It’s tiny, late, cute, loving...

Listen as stray round dances of wooden brides

Wander around abandoned villages...

Listen as the rye sways under your heart

Listen as a mouse runs through your throat

Listen as the night swells in your stomach

As a stem stabs your palm

As milk lazily dries on your lips

As a clump of worms turns in your liver

As grasshoppers wiggle in hollow amber1

Plunging into an exhausting flight

To nowhere, from nowhere...

That’s all good, that’s all fine

The nameless bunny is scared

Under a wide eyed fence in suffocating darkness

Scared of his intricate, raw intestines...

.................

The sky collapsed under two feet

And news flew to a distant land

A stormy surface, a starry swamp

Burst into thawing circles

A free sailing ship, an obedient stream

Seven mischievous steps beyond the horizon

Seven icy bridges beyond the horizon

Seven flooding monsoons beyond the horizon

1. amber is tree resin which hardens and becomes a fossil. sometimes bugs get trapped in it