[Ця лисиця] by СЕРГІЙ ЖАДАН (Serhiy Zhadan)

The Ukrainian original of "The Air We Breathed," a poem about a fox evading traps and a fraught, unspoken love.

A translated Ukrainian poem uses the image of an elusive fox to explore the corrosive silences of a failing relationship.

The Ukrainian original of "Orange in a Schoolbag," a poem about chasing the wind through open windows in summer.

A translated poem likens the morning sun to an orange in a schoolbag, the one thing that matters in loneliness.

The Ukrainian original of "Year's Middle," a poem about the height of summer and the choice between memory and forgetting.

A translated poem tracks the turning of midsummer into a meditation on memory, loss, and the roads not taken.