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Joe Stalin called Pasternak

"cloud-dweller":  this appellation

that saved him from a stretch on the rack

suggests the Poet could, from his perch,

see the sky displayed in  constellation

(as beneath it the Soviet State practiced its menacing lurch).

And Uncle Joe, surrounded by bloodied and dingy shrouds,

and by bullet-pierced heads he collected and preserved in jars

could not look from them to see, through those same clouds,

the grandeur of the stars.

Starward-Led