About One More Wood
From this little wood,
at last,
for ever or for years
the mushrooms have gone.
This happened slowly,
over thirty years.
And now, as I think back,
this disappearance, their "going"
seems one single action,
like the dying away
of a long-lived orchestra
of a long-lived choir.
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Gennady Aygi
translated by Peter France
