DAYS OF YULI DANIEL
(1925-1888)

With the last perfume
of Stalin's breath, 1941
in Yuli Daniel's den
listening to Chopin's etudes
and Scriabin's Ecstasy
played by a friend
exiled to the Gulag
until he graduates to heaven
the tiny drawings in the snow
presages the death
of the systematic machine
resting on the conscience
and silence of the West.