Serhiy Zhadan is a Ukrainian poet, writer, essayist, and translator. His poems included here are part of a collection forthcoming from Lost Horse Press’s Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series. Zhadan lives in Kharkiv.
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“They buried their son last winter”
They buried their son last winter.
Strange weather for winter—rain, thunder.
They buried him quietly—everybody’s busy.
Who did he fight for? I asked. We don’t know, they say.
He fought for someone, they say, but who—who knows?
Will it change anything, they say, what’s the...