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Hymn to Life

The hair falling on your forehead suddenly lifted.Suddenly something stirred on the ground.The trees are whispering in the dark.Your bare arms will be cold.Far off where we can’t see, the moon must be rising.It hasn’t reached us yet, slipping through…

Hiroshima Child

I come and stand at every doorBut none can hear my silent treadI knock and yet remain unseenFor I am dead for I am dead I’m only seven though I diedIn Hiroshima long agoI’m seven now as I was thenWhen…

Gioconda and Si-Ya-U

to the memory of my friend SI-YA-U, whose head was cut off in ShanghaiA CLAIMRenowned Leonardo’sworld-famous”La Gioconda”has disappeared.And in the spacevacated by the fugitivea copy has been placed.The poet inscribingthe present treatiseknows more than a littleabout the fateof the real…

Five Lines

To overcome lies in the heart, in the streets, in the booksfrom the lullabies of the mothersto the news report that the speaker reads,understanding, my love, what a great joy it is,to understand what is gone and what is on…

Fable of Fables

We are by the watersidethe plane tree and I.Our reflections are thrown on the waterthe plane tree’s and mine.The sparkle of the water hits usthe plane tree and me.We are by the watersidethe plane tree, I and the cat.Our reflections…

Autobiography

I was born in 1902I never once went back to my birthplaceI don’t like to turn backat three I served as a pasha’s grandson in Aleppoat nineteen as a student at Moscow Communist Universityat forty-nine I was back in Moscow…

Angina Pectoris

If half my heart is here, doctor, the other half is in Chinawith the army flowing toward the Yellow River.And, every morning, doctor,every morning at sunrise my heart is shot in Greece.And every night, doctor,when the prisoners are asleep and…

After Release from Prison

Awake.Where are you?At home.Still unaccustomed—awake or sleeping—to being in your own home.This is just one more of the stupefactionsof spending thirteen years in a prison.Who’s lying at your side?Not loneliness, but your wife,in the peaceful sleep of an angel.Pregnancy looks…

About My Poetry

I have no silver-saddled horse to ride,no inheritance to live on,neither riches no real-estate—a pot of honey is all I own.A pot of honey red as fire!My honey is my everything.I guardmy riches and my real-estate—my honey pot, I mean—from…

A Spring Piece Left in the Middle

Taut, thick fingers punchthe teeth of my typewriter.Three words are down on paper in capitals:SPRING SPRING SPRING…And me—poet, proofreader,the man who’s forced to readtwo thousand bad lines every day for two liras—why, since spring has come, am I still sitting…