This original poem, in Russian and English, was submitted by Peter Fulton of Waltham, Massachussetts, USA. It is about the last six seconds of a sculptor's life.

The excellent English translation of this piece of poetry from Joseph Brodsky is translated by Alexei Vernitskii.

Alexey, a postgraduate at the University of Essex whose hometown is Ekaterinburg, has published a vast poetry page. A known poet in Ekaterinburg and in the "Vavilon" union in Moscow, he has also provided a large number works of other contemporary Russian poets including Dmitrii Sokolov, Stanislav L'vovskii and Maksim Ankundinov. Some of these works have been translated into English.