Osip Mandelstam, Jewish-Russian poet: January 15, 1891 - 1938 (murdered in Stalin’s death camp in Vladivostok)…
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Alone I stare into the frost’s white face.
It’s going nowhere, and I—from nowhere.
Everything ironed flat, pleated without a wrinkle:
Miraculous, the breathing plain.
Meanwhile the sun squints at this starched poverty—
The squint itself consoled, at ease …
The ten-fold forest almost the same …
And snow crunches in the eyes, innocent, like clean bread.— January 16, 1937
(Source: lumpy-pudding)
