Translations of three contemporary Russian expatriate poets
Sunday, February 10th, 2008Alexandra Geller
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As far as all us know, love and sin
Walked side by side in world from the beginning:
Serpent's temptation in the garden of Eden
Turned Eve and Adam into human beings.
Thank you, the cunning serpent, for your gifts:
Apple and passion, untold good and evil,
And has remained for many centuries
The might of sinful pain and gorgeous feelings