Shalamov
His feast of stories about gulag prisoners
(who rarely got enough bread to eat)
now savoured by picky readers
who can overload their guts
several times per day
as a reborn Stalin
adds poison.
- © Allan Lake 2022
Allan Lake, originally from Canada, is an Australian poet. His latest chapbook of poems, My Photos of Sicily, was published by Ginninderra Press.
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