Monday, October 28, 2013

Pushkin, Aleksandr

Мой голос для тебя и ласковый и томный 
Тревожит позднее молчанье ночи темной. 
Близ ложа моего печальная свеча 
Горит; мои стихи, сливаясь и журча, 
Текут, ручьи любви, текут, полны тобою. 
Во тьме твои глаза блистают предо мною, 
Мне улыбаются, и звуки слышу я: 
Мой друг, мой нежный друг... люблю... твоя... твоя!..

Friday, October 25, 2013

Wolcott, Derek

The time will come when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored

for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,

peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.