The peasant tunic and trousers are a bit
oversized on him. Always summer-barefoot,
he says Kolya likes to look at him like that.
You should see the way they gaze at each other---
ferocities of their Love's expressed desires.
Not even the vengeance Comrade Lenin seeks
(and with vengeance the Bolshevik's party reeks)
can successfully extinguish, or smother
the truth---towering and transcendent glory---
of Alexei and Kolya's real Love story.
J-Called