Monday, October 24, 2016

the willow in fall

this tree needs lots of water


Willow

BY ANNA AKHMATOVA
TRANSLATED BY JENNIFER REESER
And I matured in peace born of command,
in the nursery of the infant century,
and the voice of man was never dear to me,
but the breeze’s voice—that I could understand.
The burdock and the nettle I preferred,
but best of all the silver willow tree.
Its weeping limbs fanned my unrest with dreams;
it lived here all my life, obligingly.
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