the virgin space of the desert
is open to all winds
its changing sandy landscapes
are impossible to remember they
pass like the waves of pleasure
through a woman's body
the ancestors accepted it as a
challenge they erected the tents
and dug the wells and claimed it all -
the palms the camels and the falcons
their faces aged like dry wadis
their guts feasted on homeless freedom
the descendants worshiped them
by taking notes and photographs
turning memory into ritual
they believed in conservation
in its power to preserve the forms
of life and the forms of death
but the desertness of the desert
has remained untouched - still full
of the blooming possibilities like
the testing of the atomic bomb
the takeoff of the space shuttle
the celebration of the burning man
(авторский перевод с русского)
desert
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