by Pavel Chichikov
She said: “Where you are going?
Your old heart may be broken,
Therefore I will take
The gift that love may break
Carried for safekeeping
To where there is no breaking,
Your skill to be as grace
As love is in that place.”
So she took my art
Safe kept within her heart –
“Now go and learn to bend,’
She said, ‘that love may send
Itself as a command,
The heart of death withstand
As love is given freely,
So art and skill must be –
An artist must confess
His lady patroness.
(See Pavel's new book, Mysteries and Stations, here.)
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