ORIGINAL+POEM

//Sing fal lal de deedle, fal lal de deedle lair, O a day2 //
 * SADKO, ОГНИ1 **

Ilmen is warm in July, set for sinking feet into lake water  and on those days, he took her down to the water letting bike handles be covered in nature’s waste.  She welcomed the toe sand, swirling fingers in the water  swirling fingers swirling mind  until her dress was doused with mud, eyes vacant. //Если я продолжаю пытаться, буду ли я быть любимым? //3 He kicked his feet, laughing. She had already belonged, as far as his life’s scope shone.
 * I **

He had attended her performances, first out of consanguinity, then out of fascination. //Adagio, allegro, adagio, allegro4 // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Twirling legs and movements, the body is life <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">cornsilk eyelids closed to the awareness of the world. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lemon chiffon of her locks, knee-length, swirling; <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">and who was she, this all-encompassing woman? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Surely too good for his sinful thoughts.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Brother falls to the sea, //jump jump jump// <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">By the gusli’s strings, broken on the shore- //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">любимый где ж ты был?5 //

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">In Luminaria6 //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">, always temperate, the water is instead cold. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">He complains of it, throwing his shirt on the cold pavement, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">mouth bubbling freshwater. //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tu no debe asumir que puede saltar pulg. No es bueno para su imagen.7 // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Arms crossed, thin coffee legs, and that hair! Bistre soot, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">running down from her scalp; <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Eyes brimming golden, she looks with contempt. //<span style="font-family: HGMinchoE,serif; font-size: 12pt;">サドコはばかげている！心配しないでください ////<span style="font-family: HGMinchoE,serif; font-size: 12pt;">8 // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Of the two spectators, she is mediocre – <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">small legged, vanilla away from the city’s lighting; <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">hair stringy and short. For her, no profound feeling. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">By then, they were exploding of passion, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">all unrealized (oh, cruel youth!) but present.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">II **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Soaked and insecure, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">he plotted his route home, the scenic way <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">where the shore met the sea. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">No feelings for this lack of song, for this lack of love. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Those who cannot find their one cannot find anything, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">so he continued past that place, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">to this place where Ilmen continued to grow in cornsilk eyes. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Far from that sight, as well, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">he was left to his own devices, his own abuse for himself.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Broken on the shore goes sister, spin spin //samsara grand//.9 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">A million others could pick his bones before she dreamt another. //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The sole mezzo-soprano must sing her own chord! //

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">NOTES ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">1 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Russian for “lights”.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">2 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Refrain in some versions of “Bonnie Annie”, Child Ballad #24.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">3 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Rough Russian. “If I continue to try, will I be loved?”

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">4 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Ballet movements. Adagio is slow, allegro is faster.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">5 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Rough Russian again. “Turtledove where have you gone?”

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">6 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Rough Latin. “The Lights.”

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">7 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Thankfully //not// rough Spanish: “You should not assume you can jump in. It is not good for your image.”

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">8 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> //Very// rough Japanese. “Sadoko is ridiculous! Please do not worry.” The name “Sadko” does not properly translate in Japanese pronunciation.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">9 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Mark Z. Danielewski’s //Only Revolutions,// page 1 of Hailey’s side. “Samsara! Samsara! Grand! I can walk away from anything.”