Olga Bragina is a poet, novelist, essayist, and translator. She was born in Kyiv in 1982 and graduated from the Kyiv National Linguistic University with a degree in translation. She has published five collections of poetry, a book of short stories, and a novel. Her poetry has been translated into twenty-two languages. She lives in Kyiv and is currently working on translating Czesław Miłosz and Wisława Szymborska into Ukrainian.
Sandro Botticelli, La mappa dell’Inferno, ca. 1480–90, Vatican Library / Wikimedia[Midway upon the journey]
midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within an endless war
well it’s…