In the midst of perpetual riddles (crickles from Boris Pasternak)

Sep 13, 2020 By Alison Leslie Gold in Folds No Comments

tracing a cross

a rain of clots

frozen puddles

smokey with snow

Siberia and abroad

midst of perpetual riddles

pedagogue and popularizer

embraced by woods

by right of friendship

only the daughters

the color of shame

crickles of sweat

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