Featured poet – Mykyta Ryzhykh (Ukraine)

BIO

Mykyta is a poet from Ukraine, nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He has published extensively and I hope you enjoy his poetry. I will name just a few journals in which his work appeared:

Dzvin, Dnipro, Bukovinian magazine, Polutona, Tipton Poetry Journal, Stone Poetry Journal, Allegro Poetry Magazine, Alternate Route, Better Than Starbucks, Littoral Press, Book of Matches, Acorn Haiku Journal, The Wise Owl,  The Tiger Moth Review, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Neologism Poetry Journal, Shot Glass Journal, QLRS, The Crank, Chronogram, The Antonym, Monterey Poetry Review, Bending Genres Journal, Cajun Mutt Press, Audience Askew Literary Journal, Spirit Fire Review, The Gravity of the Thing, Star 82 Review,  A Thin Slice of Anxiety, The Decadent Review, Corvus Review, American Diversity Report, Unlikely Stories, Triggerfish Critical Review, The Moth, Rock & Sling, ZiN Daily, Stone of Madness, The Cortland Standard, Quarter Press, Schredder, Wilderness House Literary Review,  Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Third Wednesday, Cosmic Double, and Poets Choice.


Poetry


children making sand castles
adults making sand castles
high tide



This poem smells blue
| | |
The color of wrinkles in the sky

Black shapes in clear water

This verse will be picked up by crows in the morning
And they will be thrown from heaven
On icy concrete heart rocks
~
All in vain






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