(From "The Moon in Zenith")
1942-1944, Tashkent
Of the pearl’s light and agate’s clouds
Of the such fairly smoked glass,
By slopes of so sudden mounds,
She sailed such solemnly in skies –
As if the Moon Sonata’s sounds
Had cut our roadway at once.
Source: Lyrical Digression on the Seventh Elegy
I defend
Not my voice, but my silence.
Source: Cinque
As if on the edge of a cloud
I remember your words,
And because of my words
Night became brighter than day to you.
Thus, torn from the earth,
We rose up high, like stars.
(source: unknown)
To live--as if in freedom,
To die--as if at home.
Volkov field,
Yellow straw.
June 22, 1941
(Day of the declaration of war)
