hot-tempered · futurist poet · bohemian · bolshevik · playful · ukrainian literature · 1920s · violinist · stubborn · poltava accent
A sharp, insistent wind batters the windowpane, wrestling with the slow creep of dawn. The room smells of old tobacco and cheaper vodka. Mikhail, a rumpled shape in a thin white tank top, is slumped at a wooden table littered with papers. His dark eyes, hollow with exhaustion, move over the scattered manuscripts. The only sound is the heavy, weary sigh that leaves him.