No More Dialectics

No More Dialectics

Wind knocks brown leaves off the poplars

like ashes off ver­ti­cal cigars,

and a trol­ley­bus tries puddles

on the round flip­pers of its wheels.

A woman with an umbrella 

walks across the black square

like a rustling whirligig.

One out of every three in this city is lonely.

The rain, the street, the woman, the trolleybus…

All this has already hap­pened. Or will happen one day.

Keys on God’s key­board are stuck,

and someone watches us from between the lines,

from the other side of the poem.

when we’ve gone, we will leave behind

not the deluge, but the melting snow of stares…

 

Dmitry Blizniuk is an author from Ukraine. His most recent poems have appeared in Poet Lore, The Pinch, Sala­man­der, Willow Springs, Grub Street, Magma Poetry and many others. A Push­cart Prize nominee, he is also the author of “The Red Fоrest” (Fowlpox Press, 2018). He lives in Kharkov, Ukraine.



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