Nights by the river

At night
   the river is different...
The palpitating pillars of light
  seem to live underwater...
Yet... it's an illusion...
  They're just reflections
of lanterns -
 the other side
of the bank...

When I worked in New York
  for the NDI
Betsy Gardella,
  the art director,
invited me to go
  to the Yellowstone Park
in September...

However, my fate
  was to come back home...
I've never made
  Yellowstone...

I really wish I could stay
   in the USA...
Could've stayed...

And now Jacques d'Amboise
   is no longer himself...
35 years have passed
  like one day...

Most celebrities
  I worked with
are gone...
  Peter Brook,
Natasha Pary,
  George White,
   Leonard Nemoy,
Сicely Tyson...

The whole strata of life...
The whole strata of art...

Now I'm an artist myself
  having created a huge archive,
   getting awards all the time...

Am I happy?
  Yes!
 This is nice
to be appreciated for once...

But...
   there is something else...

Happiness...
    Have I ever been?
  At times
and at times  not...

And it was almost never full...
 It can't be full on Earth...

And in the Other World?
  We'll see...

We won't know
   until we get There...
    
Shall we
  be
ever together
  in the full happiness and ener-
gy?


Oct.8, 2025