Mykyta Ryzhykh
TW: death & vomit
Death inside the head:
Love or pride?
I don't paint flowers on the wall of your back
I'm just coloring my gray lonely shadow
Question of silence:
Death or life without love?
Birds pecked my silence
Winter covered screaming wounds with snow
Why can't I sew myself into a cocoon
Why can't I be resurrected as a butterfly?
The body dies with the smell
The body rots with color
The body is capable of anything
The body is incapable of anything
I'm vomiting through the sand in my eyes
The cities outside the window are dissolving
And sun becomes unnecessary
It's time to lie down under the train of time and die
The blind see the night as a mother
The blind hide in(side) the night so as not to disturb
Those who are happy during the day
Mykyta Ryzhykh has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. 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.