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I Am Yours Frau Ava

I am yours,

you are mine.
Of this we are certain.
You are lodged in my heart,
the small key
is lost.
You must stay there
forever.

Translated by Willis Barnstone
From A Book of Women Poets, edited by Willis and Aliki Barnstone
Copyright © 1980, 1992 by Schocken Books Inc
Reprinted by permission of the publishers

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