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| notes = From [[The Moscow Notebooks (Mandelstam)|''Moscow Notebooks'']]. Translated from Russian by [[Dmitri Smirnov]]. In Russian: [[Шестого чувства крошечный придаток (Мандельштам)|Шестого чувства крошечный придаток]].}} | | notes = From [[The Moscow Notebooks (Mandelstam)|''Moscow Notebooks'']].See also ''[[Poems (Mandelstam)|Poems]]''. Translated from Russian by [[Dmitri Smirnov]]. In Russian: [[Шестого чувства крошечный придаток (Мандельштам)|''Шестого чувства крошечный придаток'']].}} | ||
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| ← O butterfly, O Moslem-woman | Octets (IV) ~ The tiny appendage of the sixth sense… written by Osip Mandelstam |
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| From Moscow Notebooks.See also Poems. Translated from Russian by Dmitri Smirnov. In Russian: Шестого чувства крошечный придаток. | Link to further information |
IV
The tiny appendage of the sixth sense,
The pineal eye of the lizard,
The monasteries of snails and shells,
Or the gabble of the gleaming eyelids, —
The unreachable — it is so close!
You can’t unfasten or observe it,
Like the message put in your hand
That you have to answer right away.
May 1932, Moscow
© Dmitri Smirnov, Translation. Can be reproduced if non commercial.