Winter Tangarines

'Sweethearts' Anastasia Kalenkovich

Winter Tangerines

In a street of December
They were eating icy tangerines
And next…
His breath was warming her frozen fingers
And next…
He bought her daisies
As bright as sun-rays
And next…
He called her “my baby”
And kissed her on the rosy face.

So, even the angels in Heaven
Shouted the cheers:
“Go ahead, go ahead with this!”
That night he was kissing her fingers
And they were eating tangerines.

- Valeryja Kustava
(2008)
Transl Alesya Sharipova

Photo by Anastasia Kalenkovich / Used with Permission