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Hermitage

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have you ever seen
inside a palace?

it's just like
the cartoons.
just like Anastasia,
rustling gowns
and gold rooms.

the ghosts are there
but no one cares,
not even the ghosts.
they roam the halls
on afternoons
planning weekend balls.

i saw my ghost
in polished wood
on the dancing floor:
haloed by a
chandelier,
not a human form.

imagine:
someone lived here.
a body just like ours.
imagine--
i'm trying...
but it's weird.
i keep having the most vibrant flashbacks of the short time i spent in St Petersburg, Russia.

i must have left a part of me there!
hopefully that part is dancing in the bulb of a chandelier
that was painted with liquid gold.
with a brush made out of squirrel hairs.

i'm not being ridiculous. it's real.
in Peter & Paul Fortress, for example.
they painted the inside of the church with gold
using squirrel-hair brushes.
because they're such fine brushes.
I'M SERIOUS.
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erinclaireb's avatar
This is sweet and funny, very lovely!