Autumn Keys Are Scattered: two haiku by Mykyta Ryzhykh

crane, image by Агзам Гайсин, on Pixabay

the end of the book is like

the beak of a silent crane

bathing in autumn silence

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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