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Cut Flowers (for Ukraine)

Lay this poem across a grave.

In this photograph taken in Ukraine, a sculpture lifts a ribbon to in the sky.

A Hole That Can’t Be Filled

By Jack Brown. From New York to Ukraine and around.

This photograph, with its blue sky and yellow sand, reminds the reader of the Ukrainian flag and a beautiful valley. Superimposed over that is a shadow of two hands.

Elegy in Ash

By John Linstrom. A bid for the world, with all eyes on Ukraine.

An aerial photo of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan in 2013. The red clay of the buildings match the reddish mountains in the background.

Ghazals at the Airport

By Gary Margolis. On fleeing the mountains.

Under the flag of Afghanistan, the feet of a crowd.

Fahima

By Steven Croft. A poem in horror of the Taliban's acts of violence against women and girls.

A photograph of a drone piece of weaponry, the General Atomics RQ-1A Predator. It resembles a windowless commercial airline.

Palindrome

By Jasmine Marshall Armstrong. In Afghanistan there are many reversals.

Icarus and the Falling Bodies

By Lynne Schmidt. Refugees denied asylum take desperate flights from Afghanistan.

Taken

By Tamam Kahn. "Afghani mother, grandmother, each may be held in this shadow."

Gas Lacrimógeno y Lluvia

By Sirena Rayes. The smoke from the streets still stings.

Resurrección

By Lissa María Reyes. A call to action for a country bled out.

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Cut Flowers (for Ukraine)

A Hole That Can’t Be Filled

Elegy in Ash

Ghazals at the Airport

Fahima

Palindrome

Icarus and the Falling Bodies

Taken

Gas Lacrimógeno y Lluvia

Resurrección

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