«Of hunchbacked Tiflis I am dreaming / Sazandar coils and moans / On bridge with people teeming / Capital carpet-gleaming / As Kura runs below. Restaurant from Caucasus / Where pilaf and wine abound, / A blushing waitress in her youth / Is now ready to serve you / Having served the t...»
«For 20 years an American woman / Must go to far-away Egypt / Forswearing the Titanic's guidance / She sleeps on bottom darker than the crypt In America the trumpets sing out loud / And monoliths arise of red steel towers / And then give away to chilly clouds / Their lips that with black...»
«Sweetness and tenderness — like sisters alike are your marks — / The wasp and the bee suckle honey then flutter as one — / Life ends, beach sand chills overnight, and the heaven gets dark, / And carried away on black litter is yesterday's sun. Ah, tender rosebush, delicate emanation! / ...»
«A ghostlike scene is glimmering / Weak choirs of shades remain / With silk has draped Melpomene / Her temple's windowpanes / Frost crunches in the yard / Black chariots stand in row / People and objects are disheveled / Street crackles with hot snow. Bit by bit the servants pick apart...»