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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Carol Rumens

Poem of the week: Selling Watermelons by Andrei Voznesensky, translated by Edwin Morgan

A slice of watermelon.
‘Who’s for a melon? / Freshly split!’ Photograph: Arshad Arbab/EPA

Selling Watermelons

Moscow is milling with watermelons.
Everything breathes a boundless freedom.
And it blows with unbridled fierceness
from the breathless melonvendors.

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