RUSSIAN HISTORY
At the court of Elizabeth, Czarina of all the Russias,
the women twirled in
enormous skirts, which the men dove under
when the music stopped.
"They rut like peasants,"
Catherine thought, fond, herself,
of privacy. As to the horse--apocryphal:
she preferred to ride on top.
GRAY BREEZE
Playing the wind,
the gull for a moment folds it wings
and steps to the parapet.
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