Деревянная грамота

We look at the tree - it is on us. Peering into the faces of the trees that accompanied the poet on earthly wandering for eight decades, the author himself comprehends and teaches his reader to comprehend the “wooden letter” - those basics of the world order commanded to man, which the civilization that has wandered into a dead end so recklessly neglects.
Leonovich has a rare fate! He managed to embody in everyday life everything that he declared in his poems, his poetic word did not differ from his deeds, from his way of life. A Moscow intellectual, who due to circumstances did not receive a diploma of higher education, but studied at serious educational institutions, he spoke several languages ​​and was a man of high erudition. He had all the prerequisites to remain an urban metropolitan resident, safely wiping the Moscow asphalt (“I am the son of asphalt, damn it ...”