Parading

staring me down, serene and pitiless

“Are you the one,” I ask, “whom Dante heard dictate
“Are you the one,” I ask, “whom Dante heard dictate
the lines of his Inferno?” She answers: “Yes.” —Anna Akhmatova, translated by Stanley Kunitz with Max Hayward
the lines of his Inferno?” She answers: “Yes.” —Anna Akhmatova, translated by Stanley Kunitz with Max Hayward

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