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Odessa 1920

Odessa 1920

Odessa. The Bridge on Lizoguba str.

My grandma got out of Odessa
hiding in the hay—
of a wagon into which

soldiers stabbed
pitchforks in— again &
again…

when I sneezed in
September she told me with
a grin:
“That’s why you have hay fever,
from the fear I felt when they—
stuck pitchforks in the hay.”