Wolfprints: For Galia

For Galia Yevtushenko

                           (Galina Semenova)

trees leaves lakes Leningrad

one summer night

                           remembering

wolf prints measuring snow

(he walked alongside them all the way)

these aging pages with curling edges

a landscape turning back the ears of

this fur cap

                          this summer evening

turning back to that

barking wolf

he saw again

fur skins discarding snow

                          that fed the streams

                          that filled the lake

                          that reflects the moon

Leningrad leaves & breeze

one summer night

                                    © Dick Russell

                                    

                                    First published in Wolfprints, 

                                    Chapbook, New Poetry, London, 1971