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Poem of the End

Marina Tsvetaeva

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1924
Originally in
Originally in Russian
Pages
Pages 20

Along one last walk through Prague, a woman and her lover end their affair street by street, bridge by bridge, and her side of every silence becomes the poem.

In this most Christian of worlds all poets are Jews.
Poem of the End, Marina Tsvetaeva

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