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.
You Will Meet Me in the Meadow
In the meadow, there a red kalyna...—Song of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen
Meet me at the wattle fence,
close to where field
tapers into dense forest
like a serpent tail's blunt tip
meeting its mouth
somewhere in a black sea's depths.
Meet me at the wattle fence
where Mykola once met Anna
during a windy April day.
Her hair blew into her eyes—
dark, round, wide,
cast downward at her bare feet.
Meet me at the wattle fence,
close to the plot bearing
a second crop of buckwheat,
the harvest near.
I'll tell you
how August creeps
into September,
without regards.
Date unknown,
the frost's hush will fall.
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