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Article: Elder Gogol's Pond at Plokhino Skete.(Poem)
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- The Southern Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
- Author:
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There is no one to read it. There is no one to read it.
--Saint Eleazar
Elder Gogol's Pond at
Plikhino Skete
Like a small yellowish waterfall
the ghost of Sophia Agapit rises from our pond. The eyes
are red and silver. Her nakedness is covered
in a green uncial script, in the perfect
hand of the other drowned nun, Xenia.
The Bolsheviks did this, first
stuffing fists of paper torn from the psalter
into their mouths. That beast
Beloborodov laughing
while drawing silk from his teeth--
he sat there shucking the corn into baskets
while judging all the river saints of our province.
Hanging them in the ...
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