lightning comes like a woman with a blue past

Sviatoslav Hurhura 1991 (Ukraine)



lightning comes like a woman with a blue past

she lost the flaming lambs
that grazed in the immediate harbor

the roofs are like abandoned skulls of giant snails

the rustling of leaves impregnates even men

a boy on the street contemplates the end of the sky

the guard of the sawmill feeds the dogs
by what his wife prepared

he says: “what a beautiful sky
I want to pay for it!"

then it was said
"already paid"
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Written on March 26, 2023

Submitted by Sviatoslav on March 26, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X XX X X A XX AX XX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 417
Words 86
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2

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