Memory of Sperchios Villages

The smell of stable, damp grass
smell of smoke from burning wet wood
the steam of our drying cloths
the hurt feet, lice.
Sleep on the hay
found us hungry and optimistic
after a poem
or a conversation about the difference
between the sovkhoz* and the kolkhoz*

*Sovier Union farming terms

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