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- Mar 23, 2022
Tim Suermondt
The City I walk around it as if I didn’t have a care, holding every care at bay. I do have a packed suitcase in the closet of my...
- Mar 23, 2022
Kim Malinowski
Birthday on February 26 I do not want to write about war. When the dead piled up in our ice rinks, we averted our eyes. Some crossed...
- Mar 23, 2022
Bob Herz
February 25, 2022: War Every word now an intrusion, Like a child’s bodiless voice at night. The word says: War, Seen on a million smart...
- Mar 23, 2022
Bill Schulz
Nuremberg to Moscow “I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.” - Adolf Hitler After 1500...
- Mar 23, 2022
Tito Mukhopadhyay
Smoke Rupturing fear! The shelling, the gunfire; explosions coming nearer. Smoke smears the ground, the air, thickening the layers of...
- Mar 23, 2022
Ralph James Savarese
Root Hog or Die The phrase is Davy Crockett’s. It can be traced back to the Middle English word wroten, to dig with the snout. It means...
- Mar 23, 2022
Sara Parrott
Under a Ukrainian Roof A man gathers men to help him bundle clusters of thatch, layers of living and dead stems, to repair his roof,...
- Mar 23, 2022
Stephen Kuusisto
Ukraine A squirrel scooped out of the air This morning Rescued by a winter branch Even unthinking Nature has more heart Than the tyrant...
- Mar 23, 2022
James Cervantes
Theater of War The tear that emerged from the corner of my right eye was involuntary, automatic when the vet assistant handed a limp bag...
- Mar 23, 2022
Sam Pereira
Thinking of Mayakovsky during the Days of the Little Napoleon, Putin, While the Wind Cries Mary It’s madness being kissed By a bat who...
- Mar 23, 2022
Charter Weeks
From another time and place In war death is indiscriminate
- Mar 23, 2022
Matthew Lippman
They Will Always Remember There Were Kids Like Them When my daughter texts me she is 28,000 feet over Illinois moving 485 miles an hour...
- Mar 23, 2022
Zoo Cain
for Ukraine
- Mar 23, 2022
Foreword
The war in Ukraine is not only on TV, but also on Twitter, Facebook, the gamut of social media. Its omnipresence makes it a degrading...
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