COLD

Aug 5

Written By Yelena Moskovich

Cold.

The gull mouths iron,

called

the coat’s curl liar.

Lady Charity

with her hoarfrost diction

and Trojan effigy

plucks the chicken,

and you – my wicked friends,

speak her spittle

from all your ends

icicles,

jeweled ─ that first syllable

hidden, though derivable.

Yelena Moskovich is a Ukrainian-born American and French author of four novels—Nadezhda in the Dark, A Door Behind A Door, Virtuoso, and The Natashas. She taught creative writing at the University of Kent Paris School of Arts and Culture.

Yelena Moskovich

Yelena Moskovich is a Ukrainian-born American and French author of four novels—Nadezhda in the Dark, A Door Behind A Door, Virtuoso, and The Natashas. She taught creative writing at the University of Kent Paris School of Arts and Culture.

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