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Leialoha Apo Perkins

Lahaina, Maui, Hawai'i, USA

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Lahaina, Maui, Hawai'i, USA

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The kitchen sink cracked
The air stalked out
His voice hung
Dead centre of her heart
Dogs leaped
Slowly, slowly the wind rose
And blew, and blew, and blew

Leialoha Apo Perkins

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

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This is one of ten poems in response to Akhmatova's poems, tr. Kunitz and Hayward. These are distillations of her life story, of her friends' lives, of the life of Russians under the Bolshevist and Stalinist governments.

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