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“No need for talk …” by
Marina Tsvetaeva
🇷🇺
(
8 Oct 1892
–
31 Aug 1941
)
Translated from the Russian by Denise Levertov
No need for talk:
my lips are for you to
drink from,
the thick of my hair
hangs heavy for you to
stroke. Please.
And my hands.
For you to kiss.
Or let me
go down into
black sleep.