Like a Requiem

for Michel, in loving memory of his wife, Lili

On mornings when there's no one else to tell
the paper still arrives. The milkman makes
dogs bark at 5 a.m. The sun comes up,
unjustly bright, exactly as you saw
it overspread your coffee and bad news.

The news read round the clock is uniform.
Everyone is dying for more life,
the radio says. The mailman's on his way,
bringing the bills that say how much it costs
to see the sun again. When you were here,

day smelled like mint and sage. Nobody had
the same day you had. Stars took special shapes,
the constellations Ampersand or Love.
Here in our garden grass grows now. The sun
rises, shines some, and passes down the west,

like requiems, which, skillful, sound the same,
whoever writes or plays them. It is not
events which give a form to forms; it was
you, and the grass grows, dogs bark, men drive off
to do what men do when they have no choice.

copyright 1996, Richard Epstein

Unknown Artist

Anatoli Kaplan, "Les Fiances"

Anatoli Kaplan

Anatoli Kaplan

Boris Kochevili

Boris Kochevili

Yurii Lukshin born in Leningrad (St.Petersburg) in 1949

Yurii Lukshin

Yurii Lukshin

Yurii Lukshin

Yurii Lukshin

Yurii Lukshin

Aleksandr (Alek) Rapoport "Motherhood"

Mikola Malyshko

Mikola Malyshko

Israel Port

Anatoli Putilin



Putov


Naftali Rakuzin

Anatoli Slepychev, "Rural gathering with a dog"
Anatoli Slepychev, "Carriage stroll"
Serguei Volokhov Tri bogatyra, "From the legend of three heroes"

Serguei Volokhov Tri Bogatyra, "From the legend of three heroes"

Serguei Volokhov Tri bogatyra, "From the legend of three heroes"

Oscar Rabin, "Autumm"

Naftali Rakuzin

Eduard (Edik) Zelenin, "Pomegranate"

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