Poem
Halyna Petrosanyak
I fall into dependence from your presence. . .
I fall into dependence from your presence. Fleeingto where you’re not just extends the boundaries of the effect
of the illness that occupies my consciousness toward evening,
the way a dark ocean wave occupies an abandoned shore.
At high tide the polyphony of the usual day
fades away, the horizon looks like a wound, it grows dark.
At ebb a familiar odd girl looks for something
on the shore among the fanciful objects brought by the water.
© Translation: 2000, Michael M. Naydan
I fall into dependence from your presence. . .
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© 2000, Halyna Petrosanyak
From: Lights of the Borderland
Publisher: Lilea NV, Ivano-Frankivsk
From: Lights of the Borderland
Publisher: Lilea NV, Ivano-Frankivsk
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I fall into dependence from your presence. . .
I fall into dependence from your presence. Fleeingto where you’re not just extends the boundaries of the effect
of the illness that occupies my consciousness toward evening,
the way a dark ocean wave occupies an abandoned shore.
At high tide the polyphony of the usual day
fades away, the horizon looks like a wound, it grows dark.
At ebb a familiar odd girl looks for something
on the shore among the fanciful objects brought by the water.
© 2000, Michael M. Naydan
From: Lights of the Borderland
From: Lights of the Borderland
I fall into dependence from your presence. . .
I fall into dependence from your presence. Fleeingto where you’re not just extends the boundaries of the effect
of the illness that occupies my consciousness toward evening,
the way a dark ocean wave occupies an abandoned shore.
At high tide the polyphony of the usual day
fades away, the horizon looks like a wound, it grows dark.
At ebb a familiar odd girl looks for something
on the shore among the fanciful objects brought by the water.
© 2000, Michael M. Naydan
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