• Poetry,  Translation

    Three Poems by Vladimir Gandelsman, Translated by Olga Livshin and Andrew Janco

    MOM, RESURRECTED

     

    Wear your coat. Wear your hat.
    You’ll get sick. Don’t do that.
    Call your mom. Call your mom.
    A storm is coming. A storm.

    Get some bread on the way home.
    Get up. It’s five minutes till. Hello?
    I got you a delicious treat.
    We’ll be able to pay for heat.

    That’s for the holidays. Why did you open it.
    What did you do this time. What did—
    Just go away. Just beat it, all right?
    Daddy and I waited all night.