Volodymyr Bilyk - 3 poems Translated into English

GALA BABAK

Cheese 'n'
cheesy day
grizzled as
"grizzled" "as" "?"

I know you
you've been swimming in my plate

pencils-lantern
'n' hot
"O"

cheesy-grizlled day




Julia Stakhivska

The Two gathered:
- wailing by the white of eyes
attempting to play on the fivesome-chords pf leaves
and drink the clapper from the gizzard

Plantain shriek will cover wound
and bees will wax the eyes





Julia Guz
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Sallow-shade!
Sallow-shade!
stilly leaves
and rain all day
in beats and drips
unlea-
-shed
and mashed
in piles of leaves
where hordes of shanks 'n' soles
had passed...

Dog,
you,
rain,
'n' time
- passed

but the stub
is not creaking
and the stub
is not tinking

the bark is gone
and now it's time for us
to comfort lights
of sallow sconce