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Langzam un likhtik
03:01
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Slow and Luminous
Slow and luminous
You bent your brow to my brow,
your black fire sunk
into my blue fire.
And my room grew full of summer,
And my room grew full of night.
I shut my bright and weeping eyes,
I wept silently in my late summer.
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I Was Once a Boy
I was once a boy,
listened to Socrates under porticoes—
my bosom friend, my love,
possessed the most beautiful torso in Athens.
Then, Caesar. And a shimmering world
of marble—I, the last of my line,
and for a bride, I chose
my proud sister.
Rose-wreathed, wine-soaked, crazed with pleasure,
I heard in the waning hours of the night
of the weakling from Nazareth
and of the wild exploits of the Jews.
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Untitled (“Sleep Take You, My Love” )
Sleep take you, my love, sleep take you.
You are like new brown forest-earth.
Your eyes, full of sky.
I your peace and I your sword,
guarding over earth and sky.
Each star astounded, hearing
what I whisper to you, dreaming.
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Mayn shtam redt
04:02
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My Ancestors Speak
….Women like idols, adorned with diamonds,
swathed red in Turkish cloth,
in heavy folds of satin de Lyon.
But their bodies are weeping willows,
and their fingers, like dry flowers in their laps,
and in their veiled and faded eyes,
deadened desire.
[...]
All of them my tribe,
blood of my blood
and flame of my flame...
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