apple cider, image by Veronica Bosley, on Pixabay, modified
we were left with a petal and
empty cider bottles as a souvenir
autumn has never been
so forgotten before
***
the ant
under my
feet
taught me
to be small
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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.
(Spirit Fire Review, December 2023 issue)
Brief poems that touch us.