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\"K\u00e1roly<\/a>

K\u00e1roly Ferenczy, The Woman Painter<\/i>, 1903, oil on canvas, 53.5″ x 51″.<\/p><\/div>\n

Anna Akhmatova\u2019s poem\u00a0\u201cSecrets of the Trade,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0translated by\u00a0Jo Ann Clark with Zhenya Zafrin, appeared in our Winter 1996 issue<\/a>. Akhmatova died in 1966; our columnist Anthony Madrid recently wrote about an epigram of hers<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 1. Inspiration<\/p>\n

It happens like this: a kind of lethargy,
In my ears the sound of a clock chiming,
Thunder fading in the distance.
Trapped, unrecognizable voices
Wail and cry out to me: the closing in\u2028
Of some mysterious circle.
But from this abyss of whispers and bells
Rises a single all-conquering sound,
Despite the forest\u2019s surrounding
Silence\u2014hear grass growing,
Hear the wood troll walking with his sack.
And listen! The sound of words,
Rhymes signaling their arrival,
And I begin to understand:
Lines simply taken down
Appear on pages white as snow.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 2.<\/p>\n

I have no use for battlefield odes,
And the charms of an intricate elegy.
For me a poem must be impromptu\u2014
Not a matter of tradition.<\/p>\n

If you only knew what kind of trash
Poems shamelessly grow in:
Like weeds under the fence,
Like crabgrass, dandelions.<\/p>\n

An angry shout, the smell of fresh tar,
Mysterious mildew on the wall\u2014
And a poem begins sounding fervent, tender,
Making us all joyful.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 3. The Muse<\/p>\n

How can I live with this burden\u2014
And yet she\u2019s called The Muse.
\u201cShe\u2019s with you in a meadow \u2026 ,\u201d they say.<\/p>\n

They say, \u201cDivine muttering!\u201d
She\u2019ll seize you worse than a fever
And then, for an entire year, nothing at all.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 4. The Poet<\/p>\n

You call this work<\/i>, this breezy life:
Overhearing something
In music, then passing it off
Half-seriously as your own.<\/p>\n

Casting someone\u2019s merry scherzo
Into lines of some sort
Swearing it\u2019s your own poor heart
That aches in a bright meadow.<\/p>\n

Then eavesdropping on the woods,
On the seemingly mute pine,
While everywhere fog stands
Like a smoke screen.<\/p>\n

I take right and left
Without the least pang of guilt:
A little from mischievous life,
All from night\u2019s silence.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 5. The Reader<\/p>\n

The poet can\u2019t be too sad
Or, worse still, too sly.
For general understanding,
The poet must be open wide.<\/p>\n

The footlights in front of him,
Bare and bright, deathly;
The cold blaze of limelight
Branding his face.<\/p>\n

But every reader is a secret,
A buried treasure, of sorts\u2014
Even the last to come,
And remaining a lifelong mute.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s the one nature keeps from us
Whenever she feels like it;
There\u2019s the one who weeps helplessly
At the prearranged hour.<\/p>\n

And there <\/i>(darkness,
shadows, chilly air)\u2014
And there\u2014<\/i>the unknown eyes
That speak to me till dawn.<\/p>\n

About some things they rebuke me,
About others they agree.
And so it goes, like a silent confession,
The flow of our warm exchange.<\/p>\n

Life on earth is short,
Our given sphere constricted,
But the poet\u2019s unknown friend
Is constant and eternal.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 6. The Last Poem<\/p>\n

Bursting into the house like startled thunder
The first one comes, breathless, laughing,
Fluttering at my throat and spinning
To the sound of its own applause.<\/p>\n

Another is born in the silence of midnight,
Stealing upon me from who knows where.
It peers at me from an empty mirror,
Mumbling something pitiless.<\/p>\n

Then from nowhere come others
Which seem not to notice I\u2019m here.
They trickle down the white page
Like spring water in a ravine.<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s one that roams secretly\u2014
No sound no color, no color no sound\u2014
It plays with light like a faceted stone.
It grows, thrives, and won\u2019t be taken alive.<\/p>\n

One, drop by drop, sucked all my blood
As young love did, that nasty girl.
Then, without a word,
Turned wholly speechless again.<\/p>\n

And then came the worst fate of all.
It left. In its wake it left the signs
To circumscribed infinity.
And without it, I\u2019m here with death.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 7. An Epigram<\/p>\n

Did Beatrice have Dantesque visions?
Did Laura write Petrarchan sonnets:
I\u2019ve taught women to speak, O God\u2014
But how can I teach them silence?<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 8. Poems<\/p>\n

Wrung-out insomnias,
Pooled wax at the base
Of a guttering candle,
The morning\u2019s first sound
Of a hundred white bells.
Warm sills under Chernigov moons.
Bees and clover, darkness and dust,
Suffocating heat.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 9.<\/p>\n

Many things want my voice to praise them,
Many things rumble, seemingly speechless;
Or they gnaw at rocks underground in the dark,
Or they show up in a circle of smoke,
But because I\u2019ve not settled my score
With wind, water, and fire,
Sleepless nights can suddenly take me
To the very gates that lead
To the morning star.<\/p>\n

\u2014translated from the Russian by Jo Ann Clark, with Zhenya Zafrin
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