Искусствоед
Seamus Heaney
Poems 1965-1975
Wintering Out (1972)
Dawn
Somebody lets up a blind.
The shrub at the window
Glitters, a mint of green leaves
Pitched and tossed.
When we stopped at the lights
In the centre, pigeons were down
On the street, a scatter
Of cobbles clucking and settling.
We went at five miles an hour.
A tut-tutting colluquy
Was in session, scholars
Arguing through until morning
In Pompeian silence.
The dummies watched from the window -
Displays as we slipped to the sea.
I got away out by myself
On a scurf of winkles and cockles
And found myself suddenly
Unable to move without crunching
Acres of their crisp delicate turrets.
Poems 1965-1975
Wintering Out (1972)
Dawn
Somebody lets up a blind.
The shrub at the window
Glitters, a mint of green leaves
Pitched and tossed.
When we stopped at the lights
In the centre, pigeons were down
On the street, a scatter
Of cobbles clucking and settling.
We went at five miles an hour.
A tut-tutting colluquy
Was in session, scholars
Arguing through until morning
In Pompeian silence.
The dummies watched from the window -
Displays as we slipped to the sea.
I got away out by myself
On a scurf of winkles and cockles
And found myself suddenly
Unable to move without crunching
Acres of their crisp delicate turrets.