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A review by reirei23
Final Meeting: Selected Poetry of Anna Akhmatova by Andrey Kneller
5.0
Delectable.
Fave Poems: The Teacher, Death, Epilogue, The Guest, Dedication, In the Evening
But there are times when wild gusts of spring,
Or word arrangements in some casual book,
Or someone's smile suddenly will draw
Me back into the life that did not happen.
In such a year this could have happened,
And in such - this: to travel, ponder, see,
And to recall, and enter a new love,
Like entering a mirror, with blunt awareness
Of treason and the wrinkle that did not exist
A day ago...
But if, from the life that I've lost,
I could have looked and seen my present life,
At last, I'd know what envy truly is...
Fave Poems: The Teacher, Death, Epilogue, The Guest, Dedication, In the Evening
But there are times when wild gusts of spring,
Or word arrangements in some casual book,
Or someone's smile suddenly will draw
Me back into the life that did not happen.
In such a year this could have happened,
And in such - this: to travel, ponder, see,
And to recall, and enter a new love,
Like entering a mirror, with blunt awareness
Of treason and the wrinkle that did not exist
A day ago...
But if, from the life that I've lost,
I could have looked and seen my present life,
At last, I'd know what envy truly is...