***
this poem
will not be written
by anyone because the author
will go to the supermarket for vodka
and never come back
***
There is no more home
ruins play the stones of a scream
There’s no more peace because
someone skipped a history lesson
on Hiroshima at school
***
the leaves don’t resent it when you step on them
the bones barely crunch when you do
people barely crunch on such occasions.
death is like a land mine doesn’t resent it when you step on it
—
Mykyta Ryzhykh is winner of the international competition Art Against Drugs and Ukrainian contests Vytoky, Shoduarivska Altanka, Khortytsky dzvony; laureate of the literary competition named after Tyutyunnik, Lyceum, Twelve, named after Dragomoshchenko. Nominated for Pushcart Prize. Published many times in the journals Dzvin, Dnipro, Bukovinian magazine, Polutona, Rechport, Topos, Articulation, Formaslov, Literature Factory, Literary Chernihiv, Tipton Poetry Journal, Stone Poetry Journal, Divot journal, dyst journal, Superpresent Magazine, Allegro Poetry Magazine, Alternate Route, Better Than Starbucks Poetry & Fiction Journal, Littoral Press, Book of Matches, on the portals Litсenter, Ice Floe Press.
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