Poetry in Motion

New York

Lullaby

Ilya Kaminsky

A poster with art by Elisabeth Condon depicts a blue, pink, red, and green bird with a yellow flower and a green plant in the foreground. In the background is another, smaller bird; the artwork includes nine pink paint blots. The poem, Lullaby by Ilya Kaminsky, is featured in brown text.

Lullaby

Little daughter
rainwater

snow and branches protect you
whitewashed walls

and neighbors’ hands, all
Child of my Aprils

little earth of
six pounds

my white hair
keeps your sleep lit

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