the boy sculpts bird embryos from the dough and throws them up
Sviatoslav Hurhura 1991 (Ukraine)
the boy sculpts bird embryos from the dough and throws them up
in the morning, mother chases the winged doves from his eyelids
he hides his pupils in poppy pods
so that old people do not know that he is black-browed
under the three-meter sky, he flies like a calligrapher's hand
you fly all the time - says mother - at least take out the garbage
a boy looks for garbage in deserted places of Tangier
and on the pier under the final downpour
and in coffee shops where they serve dirty coffee
and cannot find
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Submitted by Sviatoslav on March 28, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 512 |
Words | 102 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 4 |
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