December 9, 2012

Day 9: Erin Virgil, Poem for Maria Alyokhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, and Yekaterina Samutsevich


















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Erin Virgil


for Maria Alyokhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, and Yekaterina Samutsevich

Far away women:
lines lead up to your lives
from the North and East,
places we find unfamiliar.
But your faces speak clearly behind the glass
where you sit poised, like queens. Koponeba.
Far too fine for a circus and a cage.
Cectpbi, they can't hold you much longer

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