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We have nothing, dear Lord.

Nothing has come to us,

Just this spare winter light.

Can we see our faces

There—still-wet, blurred-white

Pigment, as if, risen

From this our earth-prison,

Awaiting judgment’s word?

From the millstones of heaven

Snow-silence spills and spills.

Why must the shallow cup

Of this vale become so full?

 

Translated from the Russian by Philip Metres

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