Burying the Sun by Gloria Whelan

Author:Gloria Whelan
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780061975790
Publisher: HarperCollins

Silent trolley cars

silent ruined houses

a mute woman at the window

speechless with hunger

only the sound of the bombs

and the city’s heartbeat

At the end of October the electricity stopped altogether: no more light, no more heat, and no more radio. To hear the radio you had to go to the loudspeakers on St. Isaac’s Square. In spite of the cold, many people went, some to hear the latest news, or the music, or the sound of the metronome. Many went, as Yelena and I often did, just for the comfort of being with others.

Though there was no heat, still everyone was praying for cold weather. Barges had been bringing food into Leningrad across Lake Ladoga, but the barges were large and cumbersome and they took nearly a day to make the trip across the lake. The Germans picked them off one by one. What the Germans did not get, the autumn storms pitched into the lake. When the lake froze, trucks would roll across the ice, trucks loaded with food. That hope kept us alive.

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