«1 Your name a bird in my hand. / Your name ice on my tongue. / The lips make a single gesture — / Your name: / A ball caught in mid-air, / a silver bell in my mouth. A stone tossed into a pond / claps your name. / Horsehooves at night / dryly thud out your name. / The loud clic...»
«5 In my home in Moscow cupolas glow, / in my home in Moscow bells clang, / tombs stand in my home in rows, / queens sleep there, and kings. Didn’t you know that in the Kremlin at dawn / it’s easier to breathe than anywhere else? / Didn’t you know that in the Kremlin at dawn / I p...»
«8 And flies swarming round the indifferent mares, / and the familiar grass lifting in the wind, / and whistled tunes and the immense sky, / and waves of bells breaking over waves of wheat, / and endless boring tales about the Germans, / and the yellow, yellow cross beyond the blue grove, ...»
«15 Without a call, without a word, / like snow softly sliding off the roof, / can it be you’ve come back? / Are you asleep in a cradle? Brightly you burn, / icon lamp only a few weeks old . . . / Who among mortal women / is rocking your cradle? Blissful burden, / prophetic reed, /...»