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# Faina Grimberg's poem about a book by Plato, a winter window and Diotima
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/padaiut-snezhinki-polusonno/
- Published: 2022-11-21T10:22:28.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:55:11.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Books, Mores

The snowflakes fall half-asleep.  
In the small flat there is silence.  
I have settled down with a book of Plato  
By the big winter window.  
Outside the window there is such a womanly picture.  
Outside the window, the sweep of an arctic-fox fur coat.  
Outside the window, the beauty Irina  
In boots on thin heels.  
A young, brisk fashionable lady  
Hurries lightly forward.  
Her little heels creak softly  
And seem to pierce the ice.  
How charming is this lightness of body,  
This lively spring of youth.  
But I did not want to be Irina,  
I wanted to be Diotima.

*Literal translation*

*Faina Grimberg (Gavrilina)*