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Teeth dull, veins collapsed

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Teeth dull, veins collapsed,
heels worn down.
We are young as long as
our parents are young.
Dry is the riverbed where milk and honey,
white and amber, had run.
In the hospital, comb your mother's hair,
pare the yellow nails.

Translation Steven Seymour

Vera Pavlova

Thursday, April 20, 2017

Topic(s) of this poem: hair,parents

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