Waiting by Yevgency Yevtushenko
Waiting
Yevgency Yevtushenko
Translated by Robin Milner-Gulland, Peter LeviMy love will come
will fling open her arms and fold me in them,
will understand my fears, observe my changes.
In from the pouring dark, from the pitch night
without stopping to bang the taxi door
she’ll run upstairs through the decaying porch
burning with love and love’s happiness,
she’ll run dripping upstairs, she won’t knock,
will take my head in her hands,
and when she drops her overcoat on a chair,
it will slide to the floor in a blue heap.
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This poem appeared in From The Collected Poems: 1952-1990 by Yevgency Yevtushenko, published by Henry Holt and Company, 1991. (Available on: Amazon • Bookshop)
ABOUT YEVGENCY YEVTUSHENKO
Yevgeny Yevtushenko was born on July 18, 1933, in the Irkutsk region of Siberia, and he grew up there and in Moscow. He first received acclaim for his poetry as a teenager, when he began publishing in magazines and was admitted to the Gorky Literary Institute and the Soviet Writers’ Union. Yevtushenko published numerous poetry collections, including The Collected Poems: 1952–1990 (Henry Holt, 1991), Almost at the End (Henry Holt, 1987), From Desire to Desire (Doubleday,… (more)
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