Wo-man and Wo-man.
We're all alone in the drowsy woods.
We're in love with each other.
No lady-friends, no wives!
We're in leaf with each other.
Who cares if we're losers as long as we're lovers!
We haven't married wives!
We share each other's lives!
We're all alone in a world of green.
Женун и женун,
Мы одни в лесной дреме.
Мыв друг друга влюблены.
— Ни подруги, ни жены!
Мы друг в друга любуны.
— Погубовники! Полюбовники!
Ни невесты, ни жены!
Мы друг в друга влюблены.
Мы одни в стране зеленой.
«Like other men, transfixed, / I want to serve you zealously, / Tell fortunes with the lips / Completely dry from jealousy. / A word does not suppress / This dryness spreading through, / Dense air is emptiness / For me without you. I want you now so awfully, / No longer jealous-green...»
«I washed myself in the yard late. / Coarse stars made the sky glow. / Starlight — salt on an axe-blade. / The barrel, brimming full, cooled off. The outside gates are all clasped, / The earth’s harshness is nonesuch. / No foundation is as pure as / A canvas still fresh, untouched. ...»
«The scalp is tingling all around / From the chill, what can I do, — / As the time now cuts me down / Like the heel right off your shoe. Life is overwhelming life, / Sound is melting, bit by bit, / Something’s off, I feel deprived, / With no time to harp on it. Life was better, was ...»
«I‘ve returned to my city, it’s familiar in truth / To the tears, to the veins, swollen glands of my youth. You are here once again, — quickly gulp in a trance / The fish oil of Leningrad’s riverside lamps. Recognize this December day spreading far, / Where an egg yolk is mixed with t...»