Опубликовано в журнале Новая Юность, номер 2, 2012
John Kinsella[1]
CANTO OF
THE TOTAL SOULS FROM THE SHIPS LIST
Esmeralda one hundred
and twelve
days’ voyage total souls
lost
two under fourteen
one male and one female;
four hundred and seventy
tons;
surgeon superintendent:
A. Newbold;
departure from
twenty-fourth of June
arriving
of October Eighteen
Fifty-Four;
dispatched by public
funds:
Secretary; Esmeralda,
O my Irish antecedents;
eight,
ships list, shoreline, open
forest —
peppermint trees amidst
tuarts;
the light, the space,
the meeting
places — the massacre
they heard of later,
knowing where the bones
were and are, keeping
quiet;
the big house; the
carving
out an “own place”;
lost:
two children; total
souls;
what water does to wood
in water all water,
fibre;
tar and sails; water
to wood in water,
livestock, fibre, fire;
lost
souls not spoken of.
[1] В ближайших номерах наш
журнал опубликует подборку стихотворений Джона Кинселлы (Австралия) из его
книги «Божественная комедия» в переводе Максима Калинина.