Full of emotion and memory,
Sits by the window
To glimpse afresh
To sing of liberty and freedom,
Poetry using
The three modes of cognition,
Analytic, intuition and revelation
Used in poetry
And this is what distinguishes it
From others
Taking Pushkin’s monument,
Ithaca,
Russian poetry in English.
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