On The Sea-Shore, Smell Of Iodine

Regina DerievaRegina Derieva

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On the sea-shore, smell of iodine,
and square as in Sicily, and dancing.An intellectual that came from the common people,
preparing himself to be Rosencrantz.
He decides to serve Claudius and therefore
spy on Prince Hamlet from the fountain.All over the world — the prison. At the world's
end a certain John plays the piano.Already darkness, and the end is in sight :
Ophelia crying in an empty hut.
And Hamlet walks to and fro with white headband,
in order to be recognized by the Ghost in the gloom.
Regina Derieva
About the poet

Regina Derieva

1949 -/UkraineRegina Derieva was born in Odessa, Ukraine, in 1949. She is the author of twenty books of poems, prose and essays. From 1965 until 1991 she lived and worked in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. She graduated from university with majors in music and Russian…

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