Trafika Europe 7 - Ukrainian Prayer

Taras Melnychuk

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the cranes are dismayed they woke up too soon all the same Prince Danylo isn’t getting married yet (his sons

have yet to return from Afghanistan)

it’s still really early (not everyone is wounded yet) animals in the forest

and people in their homes (in Ukraine) still want to sleep and there’s ice on the lake and a skiff on a bulldozer and death in the thickets and God in heaven and smoked wild boar on a spit

the cranes are dismayed but there’s no need to be by the pattern of the road whoever sleeps – sleeps but whoever – has legs

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