Poems by Mykhailo Zharzhailo
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I don’t spread a city of sensitive nature. we hid the city from view so you can decide if you want to see it a crossed-out eye sees anyway how I close my eyes tightly and continue to see through the eye, crossed-out like a road sign on the exit out of the sensitive city I see the Devil, dressed in post-truth like in a looted NFT rug Translated by R.B. Lemberg #/x\ the sanctions are harnessed in dogs motorbikes are like aircrafts the alerts are like from Louis de Funès movies some alerts disappear others appear the hierarchy of alerts kill the oldest one like a mosquito I washed my face with rusty water the iron rider drag the photos and videos to your side Apollo with a defective pixel Translated from Ukrainian by Elle Yevtushenko |
Mykhailo Zharzhailo is a poet, essayist, and performer. He is the author of Karma militia (Smoloskyp publishing, 2014) and Unsupported characters (KNXT publishing, 2020). His poems have appeared in several anthologies in Ukrainian and foreign periodicals. His poems have been translated into 9 languages. He is a member of Aether: mcrt media poetry band.
He is also the author of "Blackouts of Constitution" erasure poetry project (2018), and co-initiator of "Blackouts of Law" virtual exhibition (2021). |
