Mokre Horyt! Soaking Wet and on Fire

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In colloquial Ukrainian usage, saying something burns when it is soaking wet is a humorous contradiction. Ukrainian Canadian artist Natalka Husar adopted the phrase from her mother 's vocabulary, where it signifies a fierce defiance of the impossible, combining opposites like water and fire, or clay and paint. Essays by Sequoia Miller and Sarah Milroy, poem by Janice Kulyk Keefer. Show more