Article: Elder Gogol's Pond at Plokhino Skete.(Poem)

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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