# Out of Joseph Brodsky. His Lyrics at My English Translations

Out of the Poetic Volume "Hosanna to My Anguish" by Anna Polibina-Polansky

Out of Joseph Brodsky

The English Poetic Renditions, by Anna Polibina-Polansky

* * * A Part of Speech

...With the word "upcoming", out of the Russian speech true,

There run away mice, they are at their minor roles.

So they gnaw out a piece of the memory, those cunning creatures,

At the fat cheese, they make some enormous holes.

After many a year, it makes no difference what

(What or, ratther, who) is standing behind the curtain.

It is never before, but just at its time, on the spot.

I do not explore the life, as its facial expressions are that uncertain.

Well, its teeth acute, are visible, however, each single time,

So that the heart shrinks up but the heeight of the note is not yet to reach.

From a whole person, there leaves not even a rhyme,

But a Part of his Speech, just a partial word, a particle of speech.

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