Winter rain

Виктория Владиславовна Зиновьева
I'm warmed by the illusion again.
 It's nothing, I'll take it with me.
 I'll open the umbrella over my head –
 Protection from people and light.
 
 Going for a walk,
 Rain knows every corner
 In the notebook of the Park. Couple of lines
 In the oblique line of the alley,
 
 As a first grader I write
 That there is no winter in sight.
 No, and there will be no snow now.
 Drafts of years rustle.
 
 In ink blotches rusty Park.
 And only hedgehog needles
 Grass green, tender, prickly
 Hope dispels the gloom.
 
 The blood flow is slow.
 The earth is edematous, sick
 Oozes a tear, and I let
 On a puddle of crumpled leaf.
 
 A battered ship of trouble –
 Ragged, leaky, dilapidated –
 I push it to the reflection with a branch,
 To the flower of the Christmas star.