Vera Anatolyevna Pavlova, born 1963 in Moscow, is a Russian poet whose work has been published in The New Yorker.
Vera Pavlova graduated from the Gnessin Academy, specializing in the history of music, and is the author of twenty collections of poetry, four opera libretti, and lyrics to two cantatas. Her works have been translated into twenty five languages. Pavlova studied at the Oktyabryskaya Revolyutsiya Music College and only started publishing after graduation.
MAKING
Vera Pavlova
Making love as much as we wish,
skinny-dipping whenever we feel . . .
How is life, naked kids?
Life teems in every cell!
All alone, as in an Eden,
no laws, as in dreams . . .
I spread my skirt on the grass:
|life of mine, come to me.