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“Thinking of something, carelessly …” by Marina Tsvetaeva 🇷🇺 (8 Oct 189231 Aug 1941)
Translated from the Russian by A. S. Kline
Thinking of something, carelessly,
Something invisible, buried treasure,
Step by step, poppy by poppy,
I beheaded the flowers, at leisure.
So someday, in the dry breath
Of summer, at the edge of the sown,
Absent-mindedly, Death
Will gather a flower—my own!