By MELODY NIXON
“Wake up and help us fight before they come for you.”
—Oksana Zabuzhko
Long Shadows
April 15, 2022
Essays
All posts tagged: Odessa
This Was in Odessa
August 24, 2011
Dispatches, Translation
Dogs lay on sidewalks
escaping the heat. The wind blew sand
in our eyes. Pupils burned. Garbage whirled.
Fruit piled up on street corners,
melon juice staining our skin
