Анна Ахматова (Anna Akhmatova)

Poem Without a Hero (excerpt)

“As the future ripens in the past,
so the past rots in the future —
a terrible festival of dead leaves.”

— Anna Ahkmatova (translation by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward)

Illustrated by Polly Jaime´

Cat Dreams

Toes under the sheets

Shoelaces on the wood floor

Everything must die.