The Nameless One,
replaced by a girl tsarina
and imprisoned by the White Sea.
He heard rumors of his origin
muffled in waves against fortress walls.
He didn’t know the guards had secret orders.
Jailed by murderers,
murdered by jailers,
the walls of Schlusselburg
mirrored his skull confines,
his brain awash
in whispering white tides.
Published in Conclave: A Journal of Character
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