27
Jul20
What the Russian god can be?
Do you need an explantion
what the Russian god can be?
Here's a rough approximation
as the thing appears to me.
God of snowstorms, gos of potholes,
every wretched road you've trod,
coach-inns, cockroach haunts and rat holes,
that's him, that's your Russian god.
God of frostbite, god of famine,
beggars, cripples by the yard,
farms with no crops to examine,
that's him, that's your Russian god.
Excerto do poema The Russian God - Prince Pyotr Vyazemsky
in Chapter II - Around Pushkin
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry - edited by Robert Chandler,
Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski