***
you need to steal the imprints of dreams from the dead
what is dreaming alive is better not to see
you need some money to live
steal money from your talent and torn heart
money can’t be earned
money can only be stolen
last tip: steal from yourself
***
I don’t know why I was born with a body because it’s killing me
fresh flash meat is silent during the cardiogram
behind the wall of the hospital room my parents are
crying and saying that I am an ungrateful pig
the doctor says I’m ready for сhristmas dinner
I just have to wait until they bake me in the oven
***
lost faces like birds sing songs
each of us lives in the forest
each of us is trying to escape from the forest
we are all deaf and dumb to sing
***
Flesh obscures bones
Flesh covers human worthlessness
Asking for love is believing
Love is belief
The aluminum bird returns home
Аfter meeting the hydraulic рress
***
I want to fuck in the hole of death
morning silver colors the wind
I see how your tracks are covered by the wind
your existence is swept away by the wind
the points that make up the sand disappear
the dots that make up the sand disappear
I steal the wind and hide it in my pockets
I’m accused of theft
I’m sent to the deepest prison of the basement
I paw at the bricks that make up the wall
the building paws me with the limitations of the wind
I beg the wind for help
I dream of disappearing like a footprint in the sand
no one asks children if they want to be born
brick is silent like stone
building stone turns into ruin
it turns out that there has been no wind behind the wall for many years
I have the right to [un]memory
I forgot you
I became flighty
I became windy
I do not know you
I don’t even know myself
only the hole where I fuck still hurts
Mykyta Ryzhykh has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and has been published many times in the journals 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, TheNewVerse News, Acorn haiku Journal, The Wise Owl, Verse-Virtual, Scud, Fevers of the Mind, LiteraryYard, 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, and Ice Floe Press.
Cathy Daley (1954-2022) was a Canadian visual artist and art professor at OCADU. Cathy Daley received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ontario College of Art in 1975. Her drawings have been widely exhibited across North America and Europe. Much has been written about Daley’s work including recent reviews in Canadian Art, Globe & Mail, Border-Crossings and Art in America. Cathy was a recipient of numerous awards and grants. Her artworks can be found in collections all over the world, including the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada, the Canada Council Art Bank, The Art Gallery of Ontario, the Kelowna Art Gallery, Tom Thomson Art Gallery, amongst others. Her work mined contemporary vocabularies of glamour, fashion, popular culture, cartoons, street signage, Hollywood cinema, fairy tales, and mythology, to examine the iconography of the feminine as it exists in the cultural imaginary, personal memory, and fantasy. Her work is represented by New Zones Gallery, Calgary Alberta.
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