«Pray for the lost and overburdened, / For my living soul tonight, / You, in your path, so fixed and certain, / Having seen the cabin’s light. Sad and thankful, I’ll plainly / Tell you all without disguise, / How the blissful night had drained me, / How the morning breathed with ice....»
«The faded flag above the customs office, / The city in a yellow, murky veil. / My heart slows down, beating ever cautious, / And I feel pain each time that I inhale. To be a girl again, live in this coastal town, / Wear sandals on my feet, rejoice, / And heap my braids up high into a crow...»
«Her dry lips were tightly closed up. / Three thousand candles swayed. / Thus Princess Eudoxia lay atop / The scented, sapphire brocade. A tearless mother, bowing down, / Prayed to her for her blind son, / And a voiceless hysteric thrashed about / Lapping for air on the run. And he, who...»
«My youth was hard to endure. / With so much sorrow to bear. / How can a soul this poor / Be returned to You rich and fair? / A song of praise, long and elegant, / The flattering fate sings fervent. / Lord, Almighty! I’m negligent, / Always Your miserly servant. / Not a rose, not a ...»