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# Visotsky Translation: Trouble and Grief
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- Published: 2023-08-26T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-08-26T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: grief and trouble carried with spring ice buckling underneath soul quick falling through the crack, through the firmament falling like a heavy rock trouble is that grief got stuck grabbed the edges of the ice, became...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

grief and trouble carried with  
spring ice buckling underneath  
soul quick falling through the crack, through the firmament  
falling like a heavy rock  
trouble is that grief got stuck  
grabbed the edges of the ice, became permanent

now it follows me around  
to wherever I am found  
gossip with it, and ill will, rumor peddling  
that I didn't die but live  
knew the land with naught to give  
well and maybe the odd quails, with their meddling

which of them told him the truth  
him the master of my youth  
but they gave my secret up, with their bantering  
and unable to resist  
he pursued me through the mist  
grief and gossip rode nearby, horses cantering

he caught up, and having found  
hugged me, lifted, spun around  
alongside him, in the saddle, grief chuckling  
said he really couldn't stay  
all we had was that one day  
grief remained though to the end, it is suckling