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“Wild Vines” by Boris Pasternak 🇷🇺 (10 Feb 189030 May 1960)
Translated from the Russian by Robert Lowell
Beneath a willow entwined with ivy,
we look for shelter from the bad weather;
one raincoat covers both our shoulders—
my fingers rustle like the wild vine around your breasts.
I am wrong. The rain’s stopped.
Not ivy, but the hair of Dionysus
hangs from these willows. What am I to do?
Throw the raincoat under us!