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Magdalene (after Boris Pasternak and Marc Chagall)

March 29, 2015 by Elena Maslova-Levin

Lena Levin. Magdalene (after Boris Pasternak and Marc Chagall). Oil on canvas. 2014. 36"x24".
Lena Levin. Magdalene (after Boris Pasternak and Marc Chagall). Oil on canvas. 2014. 36″x24″. Click image for more.
From Boris Pasternak’s “Magdalene”:

Each night, my demon is here again,
My reckoning for the past,
Memories of harlotry
will come and suck my heart,
When, a slave to men’s whims,
I was a raving fool,
And the street was my shelter.

A few minutes left,
before the deathly silence.
But, before they pass away,
Having come to the edge,
As an alabaster vessel,
I break my life before thee.

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