Regina Derieva Biography

On the sea-shore, smell of iodine,
and square as in Sicily, and dancing.
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All my life
I sought
an angel.
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I don't feel at home where I am,
or where I spend time; only where,
beyond counting, there's freedom and calm,
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A poem—
is just one more
scrap of paper
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Oval mirror of the sea,
age-warped isle waved and cloudy,
each angle crystalline and salty.
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