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Anzhelina Polonskaya
Letters to Sappho
I’m writing letters. To you. We spoke about them half the night.Years pass.
Nerves are shot.
No one can be brought back.
You can scream as much as you want.
Cover the lamp.
You can lean against a tree trunk
and wait things out.
How much sky and air out there!
But nothing to breathe.
Your inner rain’s soaked everything –
your legs have stuck to your skirt hem,
bare legs, with thin streams of tendons.
From: To the Ashes
Publisher: Zephyr Press, Brookline, 2019
Publisher: Zephyr Press, Brookline, 2019
Письма к Сафо
Письма к Сафо
Письма пишу. К тебе. О которой говорили полночи.Годы уходят.
Нервы продеты в иглу.
И никого не вернуть.
Можешь кричать сколько хочешь.
Лампу смахнуть.
К полому дереву можешь прижаться спиною
и переждать.
Неба и воздуха столько!
Нечем дышать.
Внутренний дождь всё промочил –
ноги прилипли к подолу,
голые ноги, с тонкими струйками жил.
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Letters to Sappho
I’m writing letters. To you. We spoke about them half the night.Years pass.
Nerves are shot.
No one can be brought back.
You can scream as much as you want.
Cover the lamp.
You can lean against a tree trunk
and wait things out.
How much sky and air out there!
But nothing to breathe.
Your inner rain’s soaked everything –
your legs have stuck to your skirt hem,
bare legs, with thin streams of tendons.
From: To the Ashes
Publisher: 2019, Zephyr Press, Brookline
Publisher: 2019, Zephyr Press, Brookline
Letters to Sappho
I’m writing letters. To you. We spoke about them half the night.Years pass.
Nerves are shot.
No one can be brought back.
You can scream as much as you want.
Cover the lamp.
You can lean against a tree trunk
and wait things out.
How much sky and air out there!
But nothing to breathe.
Your inner rain’s soaked everything –
your legs have stuck to your skirt hem,
bare legs, with thin streams of tendons.
From: To the Ashes
Publisher: 2019, Zephyr Press, Brookline
Publisher: 2019, Zephyr Press, Brookline
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