I drink the blood of a fox who smiles at me as if I could someday found the capital of a huge empire I drink the death of a fox as if I were grass in which the dead body will gradually drown I drink death I am an unborn fox child
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the parrot repeats after me as if my phrases are smart and mean something the human child also repeats after me – what for?
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the ant's revenge
is a pleasant tickling
of my knee
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no one died except the pig people thank god for food the farm is falling asleep
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the bird outside the window disappears along with the drops of autumn rain
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Mykyta Ryzhykh has been published in the journals Dzvin, Dnipro, Bukovinsky, Tipton Poetry Journal , Stone Poetry, Divot , 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”.