Lydia Grigorieva
The Red Sea
I saw the divine underwater world!
Fish played in the coral gardens,
like butterflies and birds. An angel fish
shone with its plumage among them. I never believed
that this could happen to me in life,
and after death I did not deserve
with my own eyes staring, to see heaven . . .
the light from the heavens streamed through the thickness of water.
A stray cellophane bag
caught on the reefs, and hung there
shining like a little neon fish:
an eternal pilgrim, an everlasting wretch!
The crowd of beautiful fish flowed along
under vaults, under crowns of corals,
it flowed from garden to garden,
and multiplied and became more crowded.
Did I swim, or did I swim in fever
in the sea worlds, in the heavenly underwater foliage?“Today there are many angels in the garden . . .”
[20, 24, 30 March]
[Sinai-London]
Translated by Richard McKane
Page(s) 145
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