after each blast

the titmouse jumps   

from one branch to another 

to it, war means moving 

from the lower branches  

to the top of the poplar 

the great height  

allows it 

to follow 

how the hostilities go 

and then roar after roar  

to go back 

to the base of the tree  

Translated by Marina Karchinova / Edited by Tom Phillips