Optimistic Geography Poem by viacheslav kupriyanov

North America
still hasn't slipped
into South America

Asia Major
still hasn't crushed
Central and Asia Minor

Europe still hasn't fallen
through the Mediterranean
onto free Africa

Africa still
hasn't been swallowed
by the Sahara

Icebergs of Antarctica
haven't succeeded in
merging with the ice
of Greenland

Forces of gravity
still surpass
any
armed forces

The political map of the world
hasn't been destroyed
by the physical map


Translated from Russian by Dasha Nisula (USA)
In the 'Modern Poetry in Translation', Series Three, Number 6,2006