“The silvery tree opens
to an empty sky —
maybe it is better
that I am not your husband.”

— Anna Akhmatova

Variant translations:
The willow in the empty sky
spread her transparent fan
perhaps it were better
that I not be
your wife.
"Memory of the Sun" (alternate translation by Paula Goodman)
Thinking Of The Sun (1911)

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Anna Akhmatova 99

Russian modernist poet 1889–1966

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