the corner is turned down?
And eternally the book opens
Here, as if it’s the only part
I must know. From the parting moment
The unreturning years haven’t departed.
O, the heart is not made of stone
As I said, it’s made of flame . . .
I’ll never understand it, are you close
To me, or did you simply love me?
I came here in idleness.
It’s all the same where to be bored!
A small mill on a low hilltop.
The years can be silent here.
Softly the bee swims
Over dry convolvulus.
At the pond I call the mermaid
But the mermaid is dead.
The wide pond has grown shallow
And clogged with a rusty slime.
Over the trembling aspen
A light moon shines.
I notice everything freshly.
The poplars smell of wetness.
I am silent. Without words
I am ready to become you again, earth.
1911, Tsarskoye Selo
White Night
I haven’t locked the door,
Nor lit the candles,
You don’t know, don’t care,
That tired I haven’t the strength
To decide to go to bed.
Seeing the fields fade in
The sunset murk of pine-needles,
And to know all is lost,
That life is a cursed hell:
I’ve got drunk
On your voice in the doorway.
I was sure you’d come back.
1911, Tsarskoye Selo
Legend on an Unfinished Portrait
There’s nothing to be sad about.
Sadness is a crime, a prison.
A strange impression, I have risen
From the grey canvas like a sheet.
Up-flying arms, with a bad break,
Tormented smile—I and the sitter
Had to become thus through the bitter
Hours of profligate give and take.
He willed it that it should be so,
With words that were sinister and dead.
Fear drove into my lips the red,
And into my cheeks it piled the snow.
No sin in him. I was his fee.
He went, and arranged other limbs,
And other draperies. Void of dreams,
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