The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20
Quiet Moments.

Quiet Moments
leaving factory dnngroom passing through
crowd Daa and Geb out the high road and
anges ground They had only just entered wood of
oaks and wchems whose blush mransparency puad with
the murmur of spring. when they Joined by Poa Mekhova
Comrades I'd like to you your little
would like to rest few moments with you in queness
, D@shs and Gsb glanced each other Some
noyance? They no sign by word or movement.
Dasha by
"comrade Mekhova you visited yet an Hvs
together work. but don't know how each other lives
poLIA shook her long url entangng them thony branch
She little Shrek stood still and started laugh She
messy wig fingers gay curiosity
and smelt it.
How nice it is here It's long I've been
smells of dew and earth And this bter-sweet
buds and the sap Of the trees How long since here it
woods feel not but others And for that
it's little sad painful working
the mountain wasn't sad ALL but here these little oaks and this
prngtme smell to stir Probably shouldn't leave work
the I'm to take husbands Dasha
he's enough strength for both of After ALL
women"
She chartered like little girl playing with the branches laugh
thing and Important perhaps she wanted to perhaps
plain perhaps abandon herself to her own troubled feelings
him at Dasha.
you're jealous Dasha?"
Dasha, smiling looked al Poia like good friend.
want to pull your hair cOmrad Mekhovs? If you're
"oh, know his strength! His fight with Cossack
mountain proved that all right"
AND Gleb Polas hand press
Dasha and here the headed Po Both
which
Daha fine difficult to understand and And
Poia weak child all fire. trembling with emotion and impulse
With his elbows he the of both
laugh
"wel each arms! I'm going os,arry
both home"
Daha struck him the ribs threw her head cried loudly:
"Oh, don't boast soldier!"
"Thee it alsit you're couple
mitants think that you're not the women Sit down
armsw -
Polia eyes gaily; laughter quivered
Dasha i'm lot to do
today his bluff won't him far"
"Come on you little nub-noses Sit down now-"
He stretched arms, bending
below the hips With cries and laughter they put their
round his neck enwnng their and locking their fingers Gb
sackenng his walked firmly carrying
who were like two little laughing schoolgirls
DAsHA down first with laughter Poia
slowly seahy pressing against him with her breasts and curs
"There now! You boasting you
mockers"
They both and both had soft full breasts But
Dasha dnt-his and Poa different stranger
Already was sinking, fading beyond
tain ridges and the sky above them was deep thick blue except in
opal dmness the where it stained with fire. The
the On the
the SLOPE along the rib the ropeway cut sharp yellow
like furrow
THE evening though with ashes
the valley along the craerlike gules There
still patches and strips the rocks and slopes which bazed
And the blue obwbby bushes in this isolated
place with paths the twilight silence flooding
seemed flow of the earth out OF
underground the and from the ravine where little
brook seemed alive like tortoses and
the played there black flashing with blue This valley dark
with the heady fumes Of the moist spring earth OF the
grass unborn pregnant buds exad the breath OF
the earthly depths tangled branches Through
of branches the the
Pleasant Colony blinded
reflections of it's windows That above; and
the little houses and the tenments
melting into the creeping twilight
These women Poa. One his the other
equally In they passed through his
blood Which would recede
Or would they each other leaving him
forever in directions?
eyes What has passed today can never be forgotten
And in Poia deopen eyes Gb read the hidden significance