The Sixth Finger

A collection inspired by sentences from the work of A. P. Chekhov: “To know three languages in this city is a needless luxury. Not even a luxury, but something unnecessarily extra, like a sixth finger.” A work of poetic maturity surrendering itself to freedom, mystery, and the melancholy of a dream. Into it, like shadows, seep an awareness of the end, environmental grief, memories, and reconciliation, experienced mostly while traveling. Can one find any light in all of this? Any meaning, any understanding of what our existence is for? A beautifully laborious futility, as if we were discovering the mysterious purpose of that sixth finger.

Published in 2022 by Host Publishers in the Czech Republic.
80 pages / 12,2 x 18,5 cm

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