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Joseph Brodsky - To UraniaJoseph Brodsky - To Urania
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To I.K.        Everything has its limit, including sorrow.        A windowpane stalls a stare. Nor does a grill abandon        a leaf. One may rattle the keys, gurgle down a swallow.        Loneless cubes a man at random.        A camel sniffs at the rail with a resentful nostril;        a perspective cuts emptiness deep and even.        And what is space anyway if not the        body`s absence at every given        point? That`s why Urania`s older sister Clio!        in daylight or with the soot-rich lantern,        you see the globe`s pate free of any bio,        you see she hides nothing, unlike the latter.        There they are, blueberry-laden forests,        rivers where the folk with bare hands catch sturgeon        or the towns in whose soggy phone books        you are starring no longer; father eastward surge on        brown mountain ranges; wild mares carousing        in tall sedge; the cheeckbones get yellower        as they turn numerous. And still farther east, steam dreadnoughts                                                        or cruisers,        and the expanse grows blue like lace underwear.
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