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Poems by ​Vasyl Makhno 

Осінні вірші
 
1.
листок зачіпився за слину павучу
на ній ще тремтіло суцвіття пахуче
відцвіле у липні – зжовтілі й померхле
сорок разів хмари померли
дощі прилітали - полохали чайок
мені ж написалися вірші печальні
 
попсулося авто  - знайшовся механік
усе поробив на одному диханні
папером із рису зачистивши клеми
не знав що потрапить до вірша й поеми
що слина павуча погойдує світло
сказав: «задня фара не світить»
 
а з-над океану – тримаючись ліній
плили знов народжені хмари осінні
і пахло соляркою й жирним мазутом
від танкерів що пропливають нечутно
до бухти – до труб  переробних заводів
і черги чекають в нью-йоркських водах
 
у серпні пустіють облежані пляжі
з павучої слини надточимо пряжі
візьмемо дощу – трохи зливи і віршів
печальних і тих що сумні та сумніші
пораду механіка – піску на сандалях:
і що призабули і що не згадали
 
бо там – де за виступ морської брами
заходить ця яхта як ангел з крилами
уже починаються фази припливу
уже починається осінь  - зі слини
павучої кришиться  крейда
і більшає танкерів ставши на рейді
 
а вірші змочивши в павучій слині
водою що спала собі у кишені
вицвілих шортів – що падала з неба
ковтне наче рибу серпнева мева
і вгрузне в пісок  із набитим шлунком
облюбувавши найближчу лунку
 
в серпневому небі летять метеори
на яхтах заглушать перегріті мотори
павучі дроти і павучі линви
обірвуться  -  шторм та осінні зливи -
печальні вірші будуть печальні
як ці береги – ближні і дальні
 
 
 
2.
вересень розпочався з дощу – штормить
по цілім узбережі – позеленіла мідь
хвиль - що обгризають берег
неначе голодні й скажені пси
їхні білі загривки і чорні носи
і шурхотіння лап на папері
 
зачехляються яхти – зачиняється яхт-клуб
догорають півонії серед клумб
жовтіють метелики – я сиджу
зіперши ровер на металеве поруччя
ровер відпочиває – йому так зручно
разом з ним попишу і помовчу
 
мартин проскиглить немов курій
скажу океанові: «не дурій!»
не чіпай берега на якому мій дім
і моє письмо – і мій вірш про осінь
але він на мене маяком косить
і накриває небом тисячних дір
 
десь в південних широтах – там
вже летить до нас важка вода
я кажу метеликам: «втікайте геть!»
пролетіли на північ дві білі чаплі
а за ними – зчорнілі солені краплі
штормового дощу – й таке
 
горизонт – я бачу – накриває дощ
уже все в пелені – від і до
нью-джерзійський берег та острови
пластикове відро з плавниками рибин
дощ проживе кілька годин
відмолодить кущі і стебла трави
 
починається осінь з дощем й з дощу
починається вірш в якому мовчу
не встиг до дому – промок до рубця
але вірш уклався і ровер змок
відкриваю браму – її замок
витираючи краплі з чола й лиця.

 
 
 
AUTUMN POEMS
 
 
1.
a leaf was caught in a spider's web
on which trembled the scented inflorescence of flowers
faded since July – yellow and lifeless
clouds perished forty times
rains rolled through, scattering the seagulls
I wrote poems full of sadness
 
my car broke down – I found a mechanic
he fixed everything in one breath
cleaning the dashboard with rice paper
I didn’t know what would seep into my poem and into poems
or that the spider web would disturb the light
he said: “the break light isn't working”
 
from the ocean – as always
newly formed autumn clouds floated again
and the smell of diesel and greasy fuel
from tankers silently sailing
into the bay – to the pipes of processing plants
waiting for their turn in the New York waters
 
in august the usually crowded beaches are deserted
we will inhabit the beach with the spider web
some rain – a little rain and poems
those filled with despair and those that are sad and sadder still
the advice of the mechanic – the sand on sandals
and what was forgotten
 
for there by the open sea gates
a yacht enters like an angel with wings
the phases of the tide have begun
autumn has begun – from the spider web
chalk crumbles
and there are more tankers lined up
 
and we dip the poems into a spider web
with the water that slept in a pocket
of faded shorts that fell from the sky
that the august incarnation will swallow like a fish
and sink into the sand with a full stomach
embracing the nearest opening
 
meteors fly across the august sky
the overheated motors of yachts are silenced
spider wires and spider cables
break – a storm and autumn showers -
the sad poems will remain sad
like these coasts – close and far
 
 
2.
september started with rain – it stormed
across the whole coast – copper turned green
the waves ripped at the shore
like hungry mad dogs
with frothy white caps black noses
and paws scraping on paper
 
yachts are secured – the yacht club is closed
peonies lie charred in flower beds
butterflies wane – I sit
my bike leans on the metal railing
my bike rests – it is comfortable
together with it I'll write and be silent
 
a martin will screech like a rooster
I will tell the ocean: “don't go crazy!”
don't touch the shore with my house
and my writing– my poem about autumn
but it throws a beacon across me
and covers the sky with a thousand holes
 
somewhere from the southern latitudes –
the heavy water flies to us
I say to the butterflies: “fly away!”
two white herons flew north
and following them – dark salty drops
of stormy rain – and what a
 
horizon I see – the rain obscures it
everything is beneath a shroud – from and to
the jersey shore and islands
a plastic bucket with fish fins
the rain will last for a few hours
rejuvenate bushes and blades of grass
 
autumn begins with rain and from the rain
begins the poem in which I’m silent
I didn’t make it home – I got soaked to the bone
but I wrote the poem and my bike got drenched
I open the gate – it’s lock
I wipe the drops from my face.
 
 
Translated fromе the Ukrainian by Olena Jennings
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​Vasyl Makhno is a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, essayist, and translator. He is the author of thirteen  collections of poetry and most recently the book of selected poems Poet, the Ocean, and Fish (2019). He has also published a book of short stories, The House in Baiting Hollow (2015), a novel, The Eternal Calendar (2019), and four books of essays, The Gertrude Stein Memorial Cultural and Recreation Park (2006), Horn of Plenty (2011), Suburbs and Borderland (2019), and Biking along the Ocean (2020). Makhno’s works have been widely translated into many languages; his books have been published in Germany, Israel, Poland, Romania, Serbia and the US. He is the recipient of Kovaliv Fund Prize (2008), Serbia’s International Povele Morave Prize in Poetry (2013), the BBC Book of the Year Award (2015), and International Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize “Encounter” (2020).  Makhno currently lives with his family in New York City.


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      • Identity Issues in the Poetry of Nissim Ezekiel by Dr.Arvind Nawale & Prashant Mothe*
      • Nissim Ezekiel’s Latter-Day Psalms: His Religious and Philosophical Speculations By Dr. Pallavi Srivastava
      • The Moping Owl : the Epitome of Melancholy by Zinia Mitra
      • Gary Soto’s Vision of Chicano Experiences: The Elements of San Joaquin and Human Nature by Paula Hayes
      • Sri Aurobindo: A Poet By Aju Mukhopadhyay
      • Wordsworthian Romanticism in the Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra: Nature and the Reflective Capabilities of a Poetic Self by Paula Hayes
      • Reflective Journey of T.S. Eliot: From Philosophy to Poetry by Syed Ahmad Raza Abidi
      • North East Indian Poetry: ‘Peace’ in Violence by Ananya .S. Guha
    • 2014-2015 >
      • From The Hidden World of Poetry: Unravelling Celtic mythology in Contemporary Irish Poetry Adam Wyeth
      • Alchemy’s Drama: Conflict, Resolution and Poiesis in the Poetic Work of Art by Michelle Bitting
      • Amir Khushrau: The Musical Soul of India by Dr. Shamenaz
      • PUT YOUR HANDS ON ME: POETRY'S EROTIC ART by Elena Karina Byrne
      • Celtic and Urban Landscapes in Irish Poetry by Linda Ibbotson
      • Trickster at the African Crossroads and the Bridge to the Blues in America by Michelle Bitting
    • 2015-2016 >
      • Orogeny/Erogeny: The “nonsense” of language and the poetics of Ed Dorn T Thilleman
      • Erika Burkart: Fragments, Shards, and Visions by Marc Vincenz
      • English Women Poets and Indian politics
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      • Thirteen Thoughts on Poetry in the Digital Age by Mandy kAHN
    • 2017-2018 >
      • From Self-Portrait with Dogwood: A Route of Evanescence by Christopher Merrill
      • Impure Poetry by Tony Barnstone
      • On the Poets: Contributors in Context by Donald Gardner
      • Punching above its Weight: Dutch Poetry in English, a Selection, 2013-2017 by Jane Draycott
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