Santa Fe Poetry Broadside: Innokenty Annensky, First Fortepiano Sonnet

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Innokenty Annensky

First Fortepiano Sonnet

There is a book of wonder,
Each page's lines weave secrets and dreams.
Page-ancient garden flowers fables and moons.
Page-a maple bewitches its paper leaves.

Page-maenads flicker a white row
Outlined in skittering void,
Drunk on spells of the green-faced moon,
All ten rooting through the keys of dreams.

Proud, fierce, clean as crystals,
Bound in emeralds,
The swarm of girls plagues me

And I pray to break the silver chains...
But there is no peace, no parting, no oblivion for us.
Their tracings score my heart.

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Issue #4, October, 1998 :
Santa Fe Poetry Broadside.