The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Final Year by Jay Parini

Author:Jay Parini
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 2007-08-10T21:00:00+00:00

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J. P.

SONYA: A SESTINA

On my knees, still praying, by the blackened pond.

I watch the moon’s bare sickle and the stars

that fleck and burn my skin, asking the God

of thunder to avenge me now, to cleanse or kill

the enemy without, within, to make love

blaze like this wild grassfire, searing wind.

I feel it rising in the wood, hot wind

across the world. It stipples the black pond

and wakens what I used to know of love,

that whirling zodiac of flinty stars

that filled my nights. It’s easier to kill

now, kill what hurts. To spit at God.

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