A moongate in my wall: собрание стихотворений

229. В траве

230. Ночные поезда[137]

Marco Aguilar

231. Будет дождь[138]

232. Лестница

233. Этюд[139]

Ю. Крузенштерн

234. О луне[140]

М. Маринич

137

First published in the journal Kharbinskie kommercheskie uchilishcha Kit.Vost, zhel. dor., San Francisco, no. 11), 1971, p. 62, without the title or epigraph. Marco Aguilar (1944-) is a Costa Rican poet, who has published the collections Raigambres, Turrialba, Costa Rica, 1961, Cantos para la semana, Turrialba, Costa Rica, 1962, and Emboscnda del Tiempo, San Jose, Costa Rica, 1988.

138

First published in the journal Kharbinskie kommercheskie uchilishcha Kit. Vost. zhel. dor. (San Francisco), no. 10, 1971, p. 62, without the title.

139

The poem was first published in the journal Vozrozhdwnie (Paris), no. 118, 1961, p. 62, without title or dedication. The third line in the second stanza read: "пролетали в кильватер, четыре, бесшумно, легко," and the fifth line of the same stanza "как кочующий парус, исчезли за мыс, далеко." It appeared in the anthology of Russian emigre poetry Sodruzhestvo, Washington, 1966, p. 115, also without title or dedication, where the fifth line of the second stanza read "как кочующий парус, умчались на мыс далеко." Крузенштерн: Iustina Vladimirovna Kruzenshtern-Peterets (1903–1983), emigre journalist and poet, who lived in Harbin, Shanghai, and the USA, a friend of Mary Vezey.

140

It was first published in the journal Vozrozhdenie, Paris, no. 118, 1961, p. 62, without title or dedication. The second line of the second stanza read: "ты таких не видел и во сне," and the last line of the poem "что тебя бы привела ко мне?" М. Маринич: М.P. Marinich, who lived in Canada, a friend of Mary Vezey.