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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

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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

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
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