Mykyta Ryzhykh

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Poems Without Titles

Black dots grow on the body

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The cemetery chooses a rainy name

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The iron water of the sky falls on the skull

Ull ull ull

Dots are torn to pieces of people killed inthe back of the head

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What can world poetry tell about?

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Sugar birds of letters are flying on paper

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Black dots grow on the body of mankind

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A drawing of rain on the pavement is trying tomake out the child

Mushrooms grow after rain

The pathology of happiness is universal for all

Nuclear bomb rain over the future corpse of Hiroshima

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trees are washed only by tears

the madness of the summer sun bites the back of the head

but the cemetery is still cold

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Dynastic hands of the dead

No one will teach palms to cry

Money can't be earned,  neither can respect

Money and respect can only be stolen from talent

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What can poetry be talking 

about in the 21st century besides blood?

The ruins warm the bodies 

of the future dead

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death allows itself to be late in the form of rain that washes away all the moles from the

body

no one allows you to return to childhood witha cheek turned up for a blow

meanwhile the window is slammed shut wide open

meanwhile the birds sew up the sky tightly

time turns into sand from which we built a house

house is grass house is glass

religion trauma of cold speech

torn tongue crunching leaves underfoot

the breathless unborn god underfoot

and above the heads of the airy sky which is no more

Mykyta Ryzhykh

Ukrainian poet, now lives in Norway. Nominated for Pushcart Prize. Published   widely in  journals across the world,  such as  Dzvin, Dnipro, Bukovinian magazine, Polutona, Tipton Poetry Journal, Stone Poetry Journal, Divot journal, dyst journal, Superpresent Magazine, Allegro Poetry Magazine, Alternate Route, Better Than Starbucks, Littoral Press, Book of Matches, The NewVerse News, Acorn haiku Journal, The Wise Owl, Verse-Virtual, Scud, Fevers of the Mind, Literary Yard, PLUM TREE TAVERN, ITERANT, Fleas on the Dog, The Tiger Moth Review, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Angel Rust, Neologism Poetry Journal, Shot Glass Journal, QLRS, The Crank, Chronogram, The Antonym, Monterey Poetry Review, Five Fleas Itchy Poetry, Ranger magazine, PPP Ezine, Bending Genres Journal, Rat's Ass Review, Cajun Mutt Press, minor literatures, Audience Askew Literary Journal, Spirit Fire Review, The Gravity of the Thing, Ballast Journal, Star 82 Review, The BeZine, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Synchronized Chaos, boats against the current, The Decadent Review, Corvus Review, American Diversity Report, Unlikely Stories, Triggerfish Critical Review, The Moth, Ripple Lit, Rock & Sling, Meniscus, Rabid Oak, ZiN Daily, Stone of Madness, The Cortland Standard, Quarter Press, Schredder, Wilderness House Literary Review, Poetry Porch, Chewers & Masticadores, The Big Windows Review, Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Third Wednesday, Cosmic Double, Dialogist, Consequence, Cool Beans Lit, Poets Choice, BarBar among others.