Thursday, March 3, 2022

The Fog of What? - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

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The Fog of What?

 

“Russian Attack Sets Ukraine Nuclear Plant on Fire”

 

-BBC, 3 March 2022

 

The radiation from Zaporizhzhia

Might slither across our poor dying earth

Like serpents bringing our sins back home to us

That we might meditate upon them in death

 

And all our unpaid bills, our ungiven thanks

The cars we meant to fill with gas today

Like Bible pages rustling in the nuclear wind

Will have to be completed by a different hand

 

But this fog of war, that’s what they call it -

In truth it’s only the fog of ****

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