COLLATERAL DAMAGE

A blast, shattered… Read more
A blast, shattered… Read more
Ukrainian churches are shelters
for the traumatized during Lent 2022.
As neighborhoods are bombed
to rubble, clergy welcome
households to precarious safety,
saviors fulfilling more than liturgical roles.
Fasting … Read more
Blowing soot twists in scrollwork,
over cratered roads,
around splintered edges of a staggering barn.
A windmill rends metal on metal,
screeching above the tenor hum
keening in fence … Read more
In 1967 I hitch-hiked to Belgrade.
My friend and I would take an overnight train
to stay with our Albanian friends
in what is now Kosovo.
Until then we … Read more
The Israeli man I married—and divorced—had parents who were born in Chernivtsi, then in Romania, now in Ukraine. We met on the way to Machu Picchu after he finished … Read more
They come from places you could easily forget,
somewhere between the Pacific and Indian
Oceans: islands where statues gaze at the horizon,
like when the … Read more
You say to the Russian soldier,
Put these seeds in your pockets,
so when you fall on this land,
at least sunflowers will
spring from your body.
Maria Stepanova … Read more
Don’t send
Thoughts & Prayers
Don’t send
Bandages
Gauze
Splints
Medical Tape
Syringes
Send
What will keep us
from needing them.
Send
Javelin anti-tank missiles
Counter-battery radar systems
KPV-14.5 … Read more
they have found a wreck, and what
is proud of the seabed
was not designed for war but crushed
by ear split ice
why not design warships, tanks
to … Read more
would she say he never liked
the yellow sun
or the wrinkled blue Georgian skies
that lifted him after climbing out of the
labor camp of her womb?
had he … Read more