I am in love, hence free to live by Vera Pavlova
I am in love, hence free to live
Vera PavlovaI am in love, hence free to live
by heart, to ad lib as I caress.
A soul is light when full,
heavy when vacuous.
My soul is light. She is not afraid
to dance the agony alone,
for I was born wearing your shirt,
will come from the dead with that shirt on.
MARGINALIA
Rainy Sundays and Erik Satie’s Trois Gymnopedies 1.
ABOUT VERA PAVLOVA
Vera Pavlova is a Russian writer and the author of several poetry collections, including If There is Something to Desire: One Hundred Poems (Knopf, 2010). Her poems have been translated into more than twenty different languages. (Source)
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