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Rose Mason's avatar

For anyone interested in reading more of her poetry translated into English, you'll find four here. Three are translated from the Russian by Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk, and the fourth is translated from the Russian by Katherine E. Young. https://www.openhorizons.org/february-is-sobbing-and-the-candle-drips-on-the-table-iya-kiva-ukrainian-poet.html I especially like this one, from 2014: This coffin’s for you, little boy, don’t be afraid, lie down,

A bullet called life clutched tight in your fist,

We didn’t believe in death, look – the crosses are tinfoil.

Do you hear – all the bell towers tore out their tongues?

We won’t forget you, believe it, believe it, be …

Belief bleeds down the seam inside your sleeve,

Chants, prayers, psalms well up in a lump in your throat

In the middle of this damned winter all dressed in khaki,

And February, getting the ink, is sobbing.

And the candle drips on the table, burning and burning…

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thank you and gratitude to the poet and translator

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