I Absorbed - Celia Dropkin

I absorbed the sky,
the woods of my old home.
I bathed in drifts of snow
in the fields of that home.
By the foot of the old ranch,
I came under the moon's spell.
On our wide river, my oars
stole gold from the moon.
By the old castle,
my young lust quietly sated itself.
And because of all this
I am able to write down
a few words of love for you.

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Celia Dropkin (1888 - 1956) Russia
Translated from the Yiddish by Faith Jones, Jennifer Kronovet and Samuel Solomon