Sunday, March 8, 2026

Pieces by Mykyta Ryzhykh

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Birds

birds in sakura branches

sugar feathers glisten 

in the sunlight

 


no one can endure muteness

no one can endure muteness

and a little boy with his throat cut sings with blood in the clear air

singing is an artistic brush

humanity's easel stained with re-excavated plague

Loneliness is a room in which it snows

Loneliness is a room in which it snows

A cluster of lonelinesses is a vase in which death grows

Between the silence and emptiness there is nothing -

That is what loneliness is

Father's library went out

All the libraries of the world burned in the shadow

But who casts this shadow?

This shadow constantly disappears to infinity

(Even birds can't melt so unnoticed in the dark)

I molded bread from ice for your lips

I died, crumbled, disintegrated, turned into bread crumbs

You are blind like a stone that sinks in water

It's funny that you can't swim although you were born in the water of your belly

If anyone knows where this language of rocks leads, then it's a trap

A dead end for people who are looking for something resembling the truth

We drowned like drowned men who have swum out three times

The candle has all flowed down your hands, Lord

I call you God like a barbarian who doesn't understand anything in this world

I love you

I call you, God

I don't love myself or the grass

The temple doesn't call itself anything I will die without knowing the name of your hands


© Mykyta Ryzhykh


Mykyta Ryzhykh

Mykyta Ryzhykh, an author from Ukraine, now lives in Tromsø, Norway. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2023 and 2024. He’s published in many literary magazines іn Ukrainian and English: Tipton Poetry JournalStone Poetry JournalNeologism Poetry JournalShot Glass JournalQLRSThe CrankChronogramThe AntonymMonterey Poetry ReviewFive Fleas Itchy Poetry, and many others.


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