Fish in love
The fish caught on the hook began to gasp for breath and drink the silence.
Scales scattered on the snow like reflectors blind passing cars
Spruce trees cast their proud shadows on four-legged tracks in the snow
Conifer needles pierce a fish’s heart
But who will eat me?
Who will play with my torn heart with their cat paws?
A fish in love is asked last
The trees were silent with wooden palms about the coming end of the world
If the sun could die and snow could kill I would still only think about you
…
Pew Pew
…
I shoot from my finger into the soft wrinkled forehead and the end of the world begins
The almost polar night mixed with snow continues to remind me of you
Good God
Google said
I love you
I’m silent
I love my god
My god has name and snapchat
My body is a temple for my god
My body does not belong to me or my god
I belong only to money and blood
I remember my god every hour
I’m fighting my brain for the right to unconsciousness
I kill my brain with TV shows and chicken filet
(A world born of a dead chicken gives rise to discounts on fast food
What is the purpose of the chicken?
The chicken is the last thing asked about this)
I’m turning to stone
The stone will silently endure everything:
The name of my god carved with an awl on my hand is proof of this
I’ll lay the sky for the seagulls
I will force the night to pray for silence
I’ll make the water find own veins
I’ll paint the pipes with snow paint
I will sing quieter than the leaves
I will become greener than pine needles
I’ll sneak up on the stars to burn them
I will steal the remaining stars and weave the stars into your braids
I will die so that no one else will die from a bullet or from love
I’ll wake up the wind to freshen your bed
I will come to life along with the snow-covered grass
And still you won’t know anything about me
Glass with drops on its surface dreams of dying without pain
Nobody picks mushrooms in the cemetery
Only buried love always returns
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Winner of the international competition «Art Against Drugs», bronze medalist of the festival Chestnut House, laureate of the literary competition named after Tyutyunnik.
Published in the journals Dzvin, Dnipro, Bukovinsky journal, 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’, in the Ukrainian literary newspaper etc.
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