LAUNCHING PAPER BOATS OF HOPE: Five Poems by Halyna Kruk
These poems were originally published in Italian translation by Alessandro Achilli and Yarina Grusha Possamai in the anthology Poeti d’Ucraina, Mondadori 2022, Pina Piccolo’s translation is based on their Italian version.
STOPPING THE FALL
Stopping the fall
for three carefree days in Rimini
where in the Piazza dell’Agnolo’s fountain you
still
launch paper boats of hopes
but they never return…
WOMAN WITH A LOBSTER HEAD
Woman with the head of a lobster
and the body of a jellyfish,
why do you say in this incomprehensible language