“Imitation from the Armenian” by Anna Akhmatova

“Imitation from the Armenian” by Anna Akhmatova 🇷🇺 (23 Jun 1889 – 5 Mar 1966)

Translated from the Russian by Donald Michael Thomas

I shall come into your dream

As a black ewe, approach the throne

On withered and infirm

Legs, bleating: “Padishah,

Have you dined well? You who hold

The world like a bead, beloved

of Allah, was my little son

To your taste, was he fat enough?”