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“He is gone …” by
Marina Tsvetaeva
🇷🇺
(
8 Oct 1892
–
31 Aug 1941
)
Translated from the Russian by Rolf W. F. Gross
He is gone—I cannot eat:
The taste—of stale bread.
All—chalk.
Anything I am drawn to.
… I am the bread that was
And the snow that was.
And the snow was not white
And the bread was unloved.