Itaca, Anul XI Nr. 42
Dublin, IrelandApril-June, 2023 Sunflowers of Bucha The sun is bursting with gunfire across the UkraineLooking at Stash’s photos fro the front lineHuge yellow flowers blossom on abandoned tanksGrowing over and
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Dublin, IrelandApril-June, 2023 Sunflowers of Bucha The sun is bursting with gunfire across the UkraineLooking at Stash’s photos fro the front lineHuge yellow flowers blossom on abandoned tanksGrowing over and
The rain falls over the ruins of BahmutTanks, with Z painted on them, burn in the fieldsSilence is a luxury during these battlesWhere every artillery shell equals a casualtyYesterday’s hardened
Translated by Nadia Brunstein and published by Editura Muzeul Literaturii Române, Bucaresti, 2023
Spuyten Duyvil Publishing Cover Art, analogue collage byRuth Oisteanu The Bleeding Sun The sun rises again over the rooftops of MilanoConfronting the embattled streets of deathTired sun, red, flushed, bleedingBleeding