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Mykola Ryabchuk
The Straightforward Poems
11.life goes
crawls
creeps over
from one place to another
like tortoise
or hedgehog
draws in its head
tail
paws
so that we
when colliding with quills
hitting our foreheads against the shell
think:
life goes
burning our fingers
foreheads
souls
meanwhile it’s lying
at our feet
curled up in a ball
© Translation: 1990, Mykola Ryabchuk and R.A. Jamieson
From: Edinburgh Review, no.86, 1990
From: Edinburgh Review, no.86, 1990
THE STRAIGHTFORWARD POEMS (11)
© 1981, Mykola Ryabchuk
From: Winter in Lviv
Publisher: Molod’, Kyiv
From: Winter in Lviv
Publisher: Molod’, Kyiv
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The Straightforward Poems
11.life goes
crawls
creeps over
from one place to another
like tortoise
or hedgehog
draws in its head
tail
paws
so that we
when colliding with quills
hitting our foreheads against the shell
think:
life goes
burning our fingers
foreheads
souls
meanwhile it’s lying
at our feet
curled up in a ball
© 1990, Mykola Ryabchuk and R.A. Jamieson
From: Edinburgh Review, no.86, 1990
From: Edinburgh Review, no.86, 1990
The Straightforward Poems
11.life goes
crawls
creeps over
from one place to another
like tortoise
or hedgehog
draws in its head
tail
paws
so that we
when colliding with quills
hitting our foreheads against the shell
think:
life goes
burning our fingers
foreheads
souls
meanwhile it’s lying
at our feet
curled up in a ball
© 1990, Mykola Ryabchuk and R.A. Jamieson
From: Edinburgh Review, no.86, 1990
From: Edinburgh Review, no.86, 1990
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