Stirred, Not Shaken

Stirred, Not Shaken

Under a Spell

a poem by Anna Akhmatova

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Angela Cummings
Apr 14, 2024
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Winged Lung of a Broken Cone. - Pacific Grove, CA - 2024.

There were several poems by Anna Akhmatova that I considered sharing, but this one rang a little louder than the others. Perhaps because it was one that I learned to to recite in Russian, many years ago. Though I would struggle mightily to sound out the Cyrillic words now, some of the lines from t…

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