Nicole Yurcaba
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Nicole Yurcaba (Ukrainian: Нікола Юрцаба) is a Ukrainian-American poet and essayist. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Atlanta Review, The Lindenwood Review, Whiskey Island, Raven Chronicles, Appalachian Heritage, North of Oxford, and many other online and print journals. Nicole holds an MFA in Writing from Lindenwood University. Her poetry collection Triskaidekaphobia is forthcoming from Black Spring Group in 2022. She teaches poetry workshops for Southern New Hampshire University and works as a career counselor for Blue Ridge Community College. She is a guest book reviewer for Sage Cigarettes, Tupelo Quarterly, Colorado Review, and The Southern Review of Books.
Ice Cubes in Glasses
on the eve of war
i speak to a man
i have known
for over half
my life
i tell him
what it is
to fill the ice cube tray
then spill it
when i'm halfway
to the freezer
puddles form
on unmopped linoleum
edges running
curving
undefined
meanwhile
80,000
50,000
40,000
(depending on the media outlet)
russian troops
line an eastern border
i think of july
kyiv
dnipro
pyrohiv
the buckwheat crop
the wattle fence
my bare feet
in my ancestors' shadows
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