Ilya Kaminsky
While the Child Sleeps, Sonya Undresses
Язык: английский
Переводы:
белорусский (Калі дзіця спіць, Соня раздзяваецца), немецкий (Während das Kind schläft, zieht Sonja sich aus)
While the Child Sleeps, Sonya Undresses
She scrubs me until I spit
soapy water.
Pig, she smiles.
A man should smell better than his country—
such is the silence
of a woman who speaks against silence, knowing
silence moves us to speak.
She throws my shoes
and glasses in the air,
I am of deaf people
and I have
no country but a bathtub and an infant and a marriage bed!
Soaping together
is sacred to us.
Washing each other’s shoulders.
You can fuck
anyone—but with whom can you sit
in water?