THE ULTIMATE DOT
friends say:
you will write about completely other things now
the war blanks flowers and butterflies
it blanks the old books and new plays
blanks the birds
blanks men
it blanks hunger
hungry people share their last crumbs with birds
becoming the birds themselves
disgusting to share their bread and life with
occupiers
and fall into the ground as crumbs
instead of the grain
to sprout over the "i" in every loaf of bread
as the ultimate dot
©2019 Tina Rimbaldo
acrylic on canvas
©2023 Julia Bair
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Julia Bair…
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…is a Ukrainian poet, essayist and cultural critic writing on various topics, especially about literature, fine art, cinema, theater etc. Born and bred in a small town close to Sub-Carpathian foothills and educated in the big city of Lviv Ivan Franko national University, Julia traveled across all Europe and lived in the USA some years.
In her poetry, the childhood impressions of rural life among the rolling hills of picturesque nature in the Western Ukraine and her experience of a worldly person melt in a rather neo-impressionistic, full colors-and-light manner, though with strong social accents that include razor sharp and wise slashes through the bucolic veils of the modern peace-niks’ fancies to the brutal, full of blood and pain real side of life during the war for freedom.
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