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.

6 7 Difference in time Under the umbrella of a thick snowfall, sullen May resembles October. And patches o f thaw, few and far between, grow like bouquets at the birch trees’ feet. The North in May does not glisten with colors: a white night on white snow, harnessed to Saami sledges, the troika leaves white tracks as it carries away the herdsman, who has visited his native village for the May holiday, who is saddened at the white night, having left home for half a year. He’ll return for the October holidays, with a team, under the snowy crackle. At least there w ill be a difference in time, and sadness w ill melt on the heart.