Beyond Siberia Again Siberia

Portrait of Regina Derieva
Regina Derieva 1949–2013

Beyond Siberia again Siberia, beyond impenetrable forest again forest. And beyond it waste ground, where a blizzard of snow breaks loose.

The blizzard has handcuffs, and the snow- storm has a knife which kills at once.... I will die, pay a debt for others who live somewhere,

out of spite, out of fear and terror, out of pain, out of a nameless grave.... Beyond the wall another wall, on the wall stopped dead one sentinel.

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