Olive Senior - PEN International
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Anzhelina Polonskaya<br />
Two Birds<br />
from Dalmatian Cycle<br />
Two birds on the grey, ashy sand.<br />
The sleeping bird is on the right; her feathers are dull<br />
and forgetting has prepared a place for her in the fallen leaves.<br />
The wind tears a feather from her wing, to write<br />
in the rain’s invisible ink the word umbra<br />
on one side and lumen on the other, over where<br />
the second bird cries over the dead one, opening its yellow beak.<br />
Sending you this picture, I only want to say<br />
that I can be both birds at once.<br />
Larissa Miller<br />
Intitulée<br />
Je n’ai qu’un seul tableau chez moi –<br />
C’est une image en cadre blanc:<br />
Le jour de juin, jardin charmant<br />
Dans ma fenêtre à claire-voie,<br />
… Et la maison, puis la bordure.<br />
Là où le peintre a oublié<br />
De mettre au clair sa signature; –<br />
Une herbe verte et délavée.<br />
WORDS ... ANZHELINA POLONSKAYA / LARISSA MILLER 47<br />
Translated from Russian by Andrew Wachtel<br />
Traduit du russe par Nikita Makarov
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