Belle Epoch

for Osip Mandelstam, of blessed memory

and to the present age

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In Petersburg we'll meet again

and it will be as though

we buried the Sun...Osip Mandelstam

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the clock of the sun is buried today

I said to myself in a star drenched way

and gone forever the tit for the tat

but I was clearly wrong about that

and light came in as though it were dark

fine with the masquerades knowing the part

and split the rainbow over the ark

and split the atom and then the heart.

and vanquished the beautiful calling this Art

thus vinegar only for his wounds

did Christ consume

did Christ consume.

mary angela douglas 21 august 2023