Бажанов, А. Стихи и поэмы о саамском крае = Verses & poems on the Saami land / Аскольд Бажанов ; English translation by Naomi Caffee ; with an essay by Johanna Domokos. - Berlin : Nordeuropa-Institut der Humboldt-Universitat, 2009. - 205 с. : ил., портр.

1 4 1 Orphans We grew up under the shrapnel of bombs where minutes can last for an hour! We didn’t sing children’s songs; once the war hit, times were rough! We helped to dig bunkers alongside our widowed mothers. At night we had lavish dreams about black loaves of bread. In reality we just ate the ration: four hundred grams a day, in order to grow and prevail, and that was enough for us. Oh bunker, little bunker, in your gray and moldy corners, to the earth you ’re simply a gash, but to us you ’re a reliable roof! Every autumn during wartime, quelling the fear in our souls, we vanished during the day with kolkhoz farmhands in the fields. Daily flyovers bombarding on a strike, they did not beat us back, as we hurried to roast potatoes on the fire!