Charlotte Shevchenko Knight

Charlotte Shevchenko Knight’s Food for the Dead is due in February.

A Gathering of Lozhky

hanging from the edge of a teacupsugar-coated under the shadowof a dusty samovar

or a wedding giftsilver & resting on a bride’s lipspromising wealth protection porridge

or buried beside the closed eyesof my heritage along with the utteranceof ‘your ration’

or carved from crimean wood ...

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