Yellow flowers against a bright blue sky. Photo: By Alexei Scutari via Unsplash,
Two poems
Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938)
by Freely translated by John Lampen
1st November 2024
Somebody’s wife – I don’t know whose – is seeking
her husband through the streets of monster-Kiev
and will not let a single teardrop fall
to stain her waxen cheek.
