matsko_Blog: June 2010

this is Dark Icon from my hometown in far away Ukraine...that tiny Cross

my mom gave me as a gift - Spasi i Sohrini! - written on the Cross -

Save & Preserve!- and even in a digital form it somehow beams

a human warmness and kindness of that land - land of

Black and Azov seas, land of endless steeps, sky full of thousands miles clouds,

land of Kozak Freedom and Thoughts of great stranger, philosopher and poet

Gregory Skovoroda..."The world was chasing me, but never caught" -

and I do like these Gregory's words, spirit of Free Ukraine in them!

Andrey Voznesenskii & Ukrainian Poet Vasyl Makhno, New York City, 2009

Men walk on Moon, July 1969 New York Times

Voznesenskii poem in the same New York Times edition

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