crane, image by Агзам Гайсин, on Pixabay
the end of the book is like
the beak of a silent crane
bathing in autumn silence
***
autumn keys are scattered
across the field
everything is calm
(Previously published in ZiN Daily, January 2024)
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Mykyta Ryzhykh is a writer from Ukraine. He is the winner of the international
competition «Art Against Drugs», bronze medalist of the Chestnut House festival,
and laureate of the literary competition named after Tyutyunnik. Mykyta has been
published in the journals Dzvin, Dnipro, Bukovinsky journal, Polutona, Rechport,
Topos, Articulation, Formaslov, Colon, 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, Ice Floe Press,
Litcenter, and Soloneba, and in the Ukrainian literary newspaper.
November 2024 issue
Love the quiet beauty of these two poems.