Original
O.Rich
Сон. Я бачу винограду тисячі грон.Переді мною сад весняний розквітлий,За садом поле, на полі льон,Над полем птах непомітний.
Ніч. Я і Земля віч-на-віч.Місячне сяйво повсюди розлилось:Чітко і ясно я бачу O.Rich –У небі ім’я моє народилось.
Мить. Непомітний птах летить.Я знаю...очима птаха Землю минаю...Я птах...Я лечу...А Земля кричить:„Повернись..!” Я не чую...У даль відлітаю.
Translation
O.Rich
Dream. I see a thousand clusters of grapes.Before me a spring garden in bloom,beyond the garden a field, in the field — flax,above the field an unnoticed bird.
Night. The Earth and I, face to face.Moonlight has spilled everywhere:clearly and plainly I see O.Rich —in the sky my name is born.
Instant. The unnoticed bird is flying.I know… with the bird's eyes I pass over the Earth…I am a bird… I fly… And the Earth cries out:"Come back..!" I don't hear… Into the distance I fly.
About the poem
The section ends with a vision in five stanzas, each opened by a single stressed word — Dream. Night. Moment. World. Taste. — that rhymes into the lines that follow. Grape clusters, a spring orchard, flax, an unnoticed bird; then the earth face to face with the speaker under a moon, and a name written in the sky in Latin letters: “O.Rich — my name was born in the sky.” He becomes the bird, ignores the earth crying “Come back!”, sees a freedom “without sky and Earth” — and wakes to winter, black earth, and a one-word English curse. The only wish left is to go back into the dream for good. Who or what O.Rich is, the poem does not explain; it is a self the poet has just met.