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She knows the river net and hook	A
and hunts it deep as any	B
Love opens her a petaled look	A
'I couldn't care a penny	B
You're better dead '	C
She shakes her head	D
her angry earrings dance	E
She walks in scarf and sarafans	E
she spins from Northern Light	F
No other finger trains her hair	G
or teaches tress to toss and play	H
no other ribbon winds her braid	I
but the river's wave	J
She moves along the shore	K
and mends her nets She beams	E
a leaping look beneath her brow	L
like salmons scale a stream	M
I stood enchanted at the root	N
and dared a timid dream of fruit	N
	-
But tongues did roll in pub and spire	O
and toss about her name	P
and bandy it in crew and choir	Q
and gossip she was tamed	R
O	-
'Who bends the wind Who drowns the rain '	-
Mad I walked	S
'It's all a joke '	-
The townsmen puffed their pipes and spoke	T
me silent smoke	T
'Who rings her finger Who braids her hair '	-
I faced northwest	U
and asked the air	G
	-
Suddenly up by my side	V
pops a tramp	W
sprouted like a tundra toadstool	H
in the damp	W
'Give me a drink and get an answer	Q
by and by ' says he	B
'I'll shed a secret on your saucer	Q
like a sprig of tea ' So	-
he drains a glass and drains another	Q
and when my money's dry	X
'The icy ocean is her lover '	-
he winks	E
'And she's his bride '	-
I stood up fierce my stormy fists	E
raged to pound his frame	P
'They make a plaything of my pain	Y
for fowl and fish to see	B
the deep pike cackles in the river	Q
the high loon howls at me '	-
	-
Glasha busies at her boat	Z
tarring back and side	V
and shows the sun her mended sail	H
stitched to leak no light	F
I speak to my heart	A2
'Above the wave	J
the fish leaps and the dipping drake	B2
skims a hungry beak	C2
For your velvet look I'd lay	H
the tundra at your feet	D2
and lullaby your tattered coat	Z
to sleep in ermine sheets	E
and track the fishes' mating steps	E
from ocean dance to spawning pool	H
and catch a salmon in my net	E2
rich with roe of pearls	E
and trap you dreams you never dared	F2
and what you wished of wildest fruit	N
to slake the travels of your boots	E
through salty sea and scale	H
You tricked my lip upon your hook	A
and lure of flashing teeth	G2
and now I'm bluffed of coin and keep	H2
and townsmen tell me drunk and brief	I2
you're promised to the sea '	-
	-
Answers Glasha	J2
'I'm his bride	V
Look at the river Restless water	Q
runs beneath the wave	J
and hastens to the greyer fathoms	E
where my lover waits Today	H
I'll lift an oar and lure a breeze	E
to sail me unannounced to sea	B
I'll dropp beneath the cloudy night	F
and hug the thunder of his breast	U
till all is dark forgetfulness	B
and dreams of things that come and go	-
upon the sighing of a pillow	-
made of porpoises at rest	U
I'll ask my age I'll hear him say	B
that all my turns about the sun	K2
were seventeen salmon in a wave	J
and seventeen fishscales on a blade	I
In rolling thunder	Q
and chilly light	F
he'll rumble me his answers	B
and speak to me of life	L2
Lad your words won't win a wife	L2
for all they'll ever say of life	L2
when I have heard the sea '	-
Her ship gained snowy sail at that	M2
cupped a breeze	B
and drew her on a sharp tack	N2
to the sea	B
I whispered words I soon forgot	O2
and turned with empty eyes from what	P2
I might have had of life but for the sea	B
And felt the fact dropp like a hook	A
that caught and drew a moan from me	B
'What will I ever say of life	L2
to ears that heard the sea '	-
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Translated by Anthony Kahn	Q2

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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