Five Untitled Poems by Mykyta Ryzhykh

 

5 Untitled Poems

 

1

I leave the black room and see the night

There are no butterflies visible outside or inside the stomach

Only black figures surround everything around

The cold dissolves after turning on the heater

[That's what I call the sun now]

I haven't seen the sun for a long time

And my grandmother will never see anything again

 

2

I have a few hours left before the apartment doors are locked. Outside.

 

3

Nobody will come

Nobody's coming back

Nobody will rise again

There's not enough air for anyone

No one has enough love

 

4

The glass against which the bird is pressed is silent

I conduct the notes of silence

 

The grass warmed by silence grows

Music turns into vapor

 

5

Oak trees say nothing at night

However, just like during the day

 

My hands are overgrown with leaves

I'm full of humility

 

All poems previously published by Ice floe press.

Mykyta Ryzhykh - is the winner of the international competition Art Against Drugs and Ukrainian contests Vytoky, Shoduarivska Altanka, Khortytsky dzvony; laureate of the literary competition named after Tyutyunnik, Lyceum, Twelve, named after Dragomoshchenko. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Published many times in the journals Dzvin, Dnipro, Bukovinian magazine, Polutona, Rechport, Topos, Articulation, Formaslov, 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 Litсentr, Ice Floe Press and Soloneba, in the Ukrainian literary newspaper.