Reading Joseph Brodsky ...

I'm reading essays by Joseph Brodsky - 

I imagine that I'm sitting upon an iron bed, in a communal apartment -

I'm listening to the poet talk - 

I imagine that he smokes brutal cigarettes - 

He's analysing a poem by Anna Akhmatova - 

Men are walking homewards from the factories - 

The sun is setting -

Telephones whisper in fearful hallways - 

18.10

Thursday 1 March 2017

The Old School House

East Stoke

Dorset