In celebration of my productivity today and rebelling against any future drive to bust my ass for the next 30 minutes.
And the stone word fell
On my still-living breast.
Never mind, I was ready.
I will manage somehow.
Today I have so much to do:
I must kill memory once and for all,
I must turn my soul to stone,
I must learn to live again
Unless . . . Summer's ardent rustling
Is like a festival outside my window.
For a long time I've foreseen this
Brilliant day, deserted house.
Translated from the Russian by Judith Hemschemeyer
Thursday, January 26, 2006
The Sentence-Anna Akhmatova
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