Written by Nina
‘Ukraine reports first casualties as Kyiv says Russia launched ‘full-scale invasion’ - 24th February 2022
Under the afternoon sun the
poppy fields are awashed by bladed tide
coming clean as killing fields
The nightingales sing their mourning song
Kindly, brutal, like the Nutcracker dolls
retrieved from under what remains
of the iron nursery, sealed tight
Today is the children’s first kill
in a mousetrap world
Take them to gather wildflowers and
wish for them to run with button eyes
Evening draws its curtains and we watch
from the open windows, stifling
the whispery moonflower breeze
as the ones we knew search for home,
sleep-laden veins subdued in Charon’s chariot
Written by Nina,
@oldmanheart on Instagram.
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