Speaking In Tongues
Scribbling In Voices

Marina Tsvetaeva

Translated by Andrey Kneller

Stolen away and there inspired

While seeing dreams during the day,

All saw me sleeping, so they say,

But no one said that I looked tired

Due to the fact that in the day

The dreams were floating in my sight

I can't sleep now; awake I stay

And like a lonesome shadow sway

Over my sleeping friends at night

Cut open my veins: irrevocably,

Irreplaceably life is gushing.

Bring forth the basins and bowls!

Any bawl will prove too shoal

Any basin — shallow.

Filling up and overly

Onto the earth, rushes purging.

Inconceivably, irrevocably.

Irreplaceably -- verse is surging.