Michelle O’Sullivan
The Avenue of Quiet
I was on the edge of something
For which there is no precise name...
An insistent drowsiness,
A self-evasion...
Anna Akhmatova
Something decrepit in
The long grey shadows -
Hissing, hot whispers,
A cruel black stench.
Let it pass, you said,
Let it pass.
Leave Lev to his traitors,
We must move on,
Get past this
Midnight’s bell will chime.
You crushed my hand
In yours, we heard
A door close, felt the
Long finger of a breeze.
For which there is no precise name...
An insistent drowsiness,
A self-evasion...
Anna Akhmatova
Something decrepit in
The long grey shadows -
Hissing, hot whispers,
A cruel black stench.
Let it pass, you said,
Let it pass.
Leave Lev to his traitors,
We must move on,
Get past this
Midnight’s bell will chime.
You crushed my hand
In yours, we heard
A door close, felt the
Long finger of a breeze.
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