Эмили Дикинсон, 96

( Оригинал )

Кончалась дважды жизнь моя - 
Осталось посмотреть,
Какое же событие
Преподнесет мне смерть:

Такое ли огромное, 
Как те два, жизнь назад?
Рай значит "расставание".
Оно же значит - ад.

old, last, unsent

It's been three years
Since I had touched your shoulders
Under a fresh checkered shirt,
Stroked your knee.
Two years later I sat down close by your side
And took your hand between my palms.

The body of this love is
Made of week-long silences
Empty spaces
Cold passageways.
Its substance as rarefied 
as that within atoms
held together
by nothing else but ever-renewed desire.

And this desire of mine
is like grass
shining innumerable in the sun
rising in silky, whispering waves
after no matter what winter
fire, flood or devastation.

I need not be sad.