Ekaterina Derysheva
Summer 2025 | Poetry
[a goose threads its neck]
a goose threads its neck
through a window's needle-eye
grazing the blades of grass
stitched into emptying soil
like zigzag seams
a coin inserted into a slot
flickered as a red-hot echo
tiering
geological motion beads
on a shaft of melody
a sphere tightened by
dispersal buttons
decaying into collages
lit by bracelets of geese
feathering its perimeter
with tetrachromatic tones
Ekaterina Derysheva is an interdisciplinary poet, born in 1994 in Melitopol, Ukraine. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals including Poem-a-Day, Lana Turner, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Trilobite, Asymptote, Four Way Review, Zerkalo, Tlen Literacki, Literaturportal Bayern, Volga, Homo Legens, among others. She is the author of Starting Point (2018) and There Will Be No Installation (2023), and co-author of Earth Time (Romania, 2020). Derysheva is an Artist Protection Fund Fellow in residence at the University of Pennsylvania (2024–2025).