Photo (L to R): Vyacheslav Kupriyanov, Richard Berengarten, Adam Puslojić (Serbia), Zoran Kostić (Mrčajevci, Serbia, 2005)

Vyacheslav Kupriyanov (Russia)

The Pigeon Mail

Dear Richard,

Belgrade once brought us together, Cambridge continued our friendship, and it was no coincidence that we met again in China! I congratulate you on your 80th birthday and greet you with my Serbian poem, which sounds the same today in many parts of our globe!

Yours

Slava –

THE LAST DAY

           For my friend Richard Berengarten

On the third

day

the dove

returned

to Noah’s

ark

with a bomb

in its beak

There is no land yet

but already there is

air

Belgrade 1999

              translated from Russian by Dasha C. Nisula (USA)

Photos:

(above) Vyacheslav Kupriyanov, Richard Berengarten in China, 2016

(below) Vyacheslav Kupriyanov, Richard Berengarten, Adam Puslojić, Zoran Kostić, in Mrčajevci 2005

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Photo: Richard Berengarten and Vyacheslav Kupriyanov (Gulangyu Island, Xiamen, China, 2016)