Poems

Unique Days How I remember solstice days Through many winters long completed! Each unrepeatable, unique, And each one countless times repeated. Of all these days, these […]

Venice A click of window glass had roused me Out of my sleep at early dawn. Beneath me Venice swam in water; A sodden pretzel made […]

Wet Paint ‘Look out! Wet paint.’ My soul was blind, I have to pay the price, All marked with stains of calves and cheeks And hands […]

When It Clears Up The lake is like a giant saucer; Beyond-a gathering of clouds; Like stern and dazzling mountain-ranges Their massif the horizon crowds. And […]

White Night I keep thinking of times that are long past, Of a house in the Petersburg Quarter. You had come from the steppeland Kursk Province, […]

Wind I am no more but you live on, And the wind, whining and complaining, Is shaking house and forest, straining Not single fir trees one […]

Winter Night It snowed and snowed ,the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle […]

With Oars at Rest A boat is beating in the breast of the lake. Willows hang over, tickling and kissing Neckline and knuckles and rowlocks-O wait, […]

Without A Title So aloof, so meek in your ways, Now you’re fire, you’re pure combustion. Only let me lock up your beauty Deep, deep down […]

You are disappointed? You thought… You are disappointed? You thought that in peace we Would part to the sound of a requiem, a swan-song? You counted […]