Sergey Gandlevsky
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(1952)
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« « • i w Reflecting in rhyme. My utterance **as *on& keen w a t c ^ e ( ^ ky silence. Have all those grammarians Really been handed down from above! T n • u r-A In Russian poetry there s a tradition ° f breaking mirrors with revulsion Uncle in a kitchen hat bespattered Or hiding knives by a pigeon n tnG * reflected drawersinofa writing Was captureddesks. pier-glass , . i So don t tire me with creative hunger ^ c a m e o u t like that by itself. i t was once a little ship, a yawl Or a sparrow on an empty hammock.I s t h a t a c l o u d ? N o Xt S . ' , OWn' ^ s a c r o w n m a woman's hand ^ t s habits of crowned tenderness The scrape of oarlocks on summer ponds: He licks a scratch and asks to be picked up 111 never give you up to anyone!