Poem of the Week, by Osip Mandelstam
The Necklace – Osip Mandelstam (1920; translated from the Russian by Christian Wiman) Take, from my palms, for joy, for ease, A little honey, a little sun, That we may obey Persephone’s bees. You can’t untie a boat unmoored. Fur-shod shadows can’t be heard, Nor terror, in this life, mastered. Love, what’s left for us, … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Osip Mandelstam