Lit eZine Vol 5 | p-13 | POETRY | Snow Poured Out… – Manic Sylph Writes… Poetry & Thoughts by Mona Soorma

SHORT POEM

SNOW POURED OUT…
by Irina Tall

Snow pouring out of hands — *Image by* *PublicDomainPictures*

Snow poured out
  White and cold
  leaving a blue wound on my palm
   I realized I could no longer talk about the pain
  And left the black book behind me
And then
  A small pink envelope arrived
  From which something fell
 The Scarlet Heart
  Filled with love

  In my notebook
  Green and yellow hearts appeared
  I drew them
  On my dark caricatures 
  my little sister
Maybe it's stupid
  But I keep the notes as memories

  After the biology lesson
Standing next to the blackboard
White like a snowman
I thought I could sing
And mimic the birds
A gray dove flew into the window
  And settled in my hand
  Tears fell
Pink glitter and a little note
  In the shape of a heart

Perhaps this is a mistake
   This morning they brought me a letter from far away
Africa with a blue rhino stamp
  And inside a postcard
Resembling a heart cut in half
Bore the inscription "I love you"
  I couldn’t find the name
  But I felt happy.

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Irina Tall (Novikova) is a writer, graphic artist, illustrator. She graduated from the State Academy of Slavic Cultures with a degree in art, and also hold a degree in design. Her inaugural solo exhibition “My soul is like a wild hawk” was hosted by Maxim Bagdanovich Museum in 2002. The first big series she drew was “The Red Book” dedicated to rare and endangered species. She writes fairy tales and poems, illustrates short stories and draws various fantastic creatures. In her works, she explores themes of ecology. In 2005, she devoted a series of works to the Chernobyl disaster, drawing on anti-war topics. Her writing has been published in magazines such as Gupsophila, Harpy Hybrid Review, Little Literary Living Room and others. In 2022, her short story was published in the collection “The 50 Best Short Stories”, and the poetry collection “The Wonders of Winter” includes one of her poems.