There is a statue
Of Peter the Great
In St. Petersburg
That Pushkin
Revered in a famous poem
Медный всадник (Bronze Horseman)
And this image revives its memory
Its living, breathing
Counterpart,
A man
On horseback
Silhouetted
Against a copper
Backdrop
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A golden landscape
Of peaks and troughs
One man walking
Along a shifting spine
A sandy backbone
His footsteps leaving
Ghostly traces
Of his passage
Along the dune