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From the book The Evening Song | (1996-2005) | ![](/images/star3_red.jpg) |
All the Works | Turrets to the sides, lookout towers, steeples,
stony darkness.
All the works which have been loved
or conceived for ages –
nickel and aluminum, stepladders,
those pawn-brokers of the height –
the tender eyes of the Dormition and St. Sophia1,
o earth, will you shut even them? –
a furious whirlwind will scatter
all the works as it should be...
Or Mercy, have your hands not touched them
along with our own hands? | Slava I. Yastremski and Michel Naydan |
| 1 The tender eyes of the Dormition and St. Sophia - is a reference to a Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God (most likely the one in the Moscow Kremlin) and the Cathedrals of St. Sophia in Kiev and Novgorod. | |
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