A girl sleeps as if Poem by Vera Pavlova

A girl sleeps as if



A girl sleeps as if
she were in someone's dream;
a woman sleeps as if
tomorrow a war will begin;
an old woman sleeps as if
it were enough to feign being dead,
hoping death will pass her by
on the far outskirts of sleep.

Translation Steven Seymour

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