Visiting the Chukchi

        " Snow... Snows...
         From the frost - as in Paradise
         in the flooded
         and the lighted Yurt"
         [V. Kostyrya]
 
 
 ***
 
 I sit on Chukotka in a bright, heated Yurt.
 Suddenly Chukcha comes in his colorful robe.
 And he says to me, " I hope you're comfortable here."
 Let's kurpatu will underlie for convenience, padded.
 
 I picked some apricots for you in the tundra,
 Raisins, nuts, and a whole bag of tomatoes.
 Eat, my dear, and let's go on the road.
 You still have a whole box of poems to write.
 
 Your Tashkent plague must have been covered with snow.
 Your deer die in Karakum without a yagel...
 And his book, with its bad rhymes
 Take it with you - they won't understand you in the Arctic.
 
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 kurpacha-quilted thin mattress
 lyagan - a large flat dish


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