Long walking the field, I met a nun, and surprisingly, it was not our time. I felt this immediately. He took a step, bowed to me and I in turn bowed to him. We stopped in surprise, looking at each other. I spoke first. He was slightly frightened, and after a while he asked cautiously: "Whose will I ...Read more...
February is a time of frost and blizzard: but here you go, thaw, read the second week. I walk by the forest on the trampled trail, and suddenly the mosquito will fly. "Wow, I think, a mosquito - yes, at that time, probably thawed under the king and fell out and flew crazily, from there everything wa...Read more...
I'm a big tree, sprawling! Many hands, many branches... Each branch is like a tree, as a separate country. Some branches of the country above the shore, others over the water - far from land, from stones. I, vaguely, like in a dream I guess that when I was a man, because I feel and understand them. ...Read more...
Everywhere the stars: and above, and below... If from the tent to reach out and dunk into the water of a large river, they will be heard. Far away, on that bank, the lights of the villages burn, connecting with the stars; and here, next to, a blue branch of the willow willows blinks blue-this car's ...Read more...
It is interesting: you walk along the lake, you admire; you look at air bubbles in the ice, seaweed under the glass of young, not yet thick ice. Everything is quiet and quiet... You look at your children that they do not skate nearer. But then a loud distant sound passed through the ice... And again...Read more...
Long searches of a wood stream nevertheless have crowned success - not the notable, thrown parcel, overgrown with youth and filled up by the fallen pines, has led taki to a river Jushutka. Thin and winding, like a string, he twisted between dense pine forests. The bottom is all in sandy, sunny rabbi...Read more...
I buy tomatoes from the market at Chuvashki and she consults me: "Do I take il for salting with food?" "For food," I answer. "Then I'll give you some reds, and the rest of the greens will lie so better until they're consumed." "You just," she says to me, "put a red one in front of a meal for a coupl...Read more...
Whence he such - well at all mine! I always hated everything military. But the little son - on the contrary, even in primary classes, on New Year's Eve ordered Santa to give him a military uniform. I thought that this is a childhood... It will pass, they say, and everything will change... No, it has...Read more...
The bell rang - it was somewhere in the eighteenth day. They said that he was at home, very important people would come for a conversation. I was even frightened: what important, what conversation? He even began hastily cleaning the snow-covered yard and the street that ran along the fence. And then...Read more...
Today is December 31! In the morning, on TV programs, there are, so to speak, archive tapes, the stage of those far away - the sixties... Of course, it's all memorable and expensive for me, and I look, but the children after sleep began to get up one by one and leave their bedrooms, and, passing, lo...Read more...
In the most distant alleys - in the labyrinths of the channel and dead ends - far from the riverbed, a thin ice-like paper began to grow. But, beside lonely reeds he was not. This heat rises from the muddy bottom over the reeds to the surface...
I rest, I soak in the bathhouse, drink herbal tea and talk with bath brothers. Suddenly the phone rang. Wife in an agitated voice reports that at home, in the ventilation corrugated pipe communicating with the sauna, someone is beating, probably a bird... Having stopped bliss and hurriedly gathered,...Read more...