FIVE CENTOS AFTER SERHIY ZHADAN
Jan 01, 2022
2 minutes
DZVINIA ORLOWSKY
Cento 1, What We Live For, What We Die For
—based on first lines by Serhiy Zhadan
Take only what is important. Take the letters,
the dark shattered wicked winter.
You hear everything passing,
stories connected with murders, knife wounds.
Remember how winter began in your town.
The hot heart of the year is burning.
Where areYou will reply today touching the warm letters.
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