«I have come to you with greetings / To tell you the sun has risen, / To say that its burning light / Through the leaves has sent a flutter; To say that the woods have waked, / Every corner, and every twig, / Every bird has taken wing / Full of appetite for spring; To say I have come a...»
«What grief! The alley's end / Is lost in snow again today, / And once again, the silver snakes / Are crawling through the snow. The sky's without a patch of blue, / The steppe's completely smooth and white, / A single crow is struggling hard / To beat its wings against the storm. My s...»
«I blurred at once the chart of trite routine / by splashing paint with one swift motion. / I showed upon a plate of brawny glutin / the slanting cheekbones of the ocean / Upon the scales of tinny fishes / new lips summoned, though yet mute. / But could you / play / right to the finis...»
«The buzz subsides. I have come on stage. / Leaning in an open door / I try to detect from the echo / What the future has in store. A thousand opera-glasses level / The dark, point-blank, at me. / Abba, Father, if it be possible / Let this cup pass from me. I love your preordained desig...»