Socialist Sonnet No. 101
Kakhovka
Whoever laid
the charge and blew the breach,
Careless of
life, loosed an insurgency
Of water
terror, intended to be
Overwhelming
as far as it could reach
Across No-Man’s-Land,
purged of production,
With people
flushed away and occupied
Only on maps
generals use to decide
Where next
is to be marked for destruction.
If they’re
on the ‘winning side’ dam busters
Become heroes
granted medals and plaques,
Feature
films glorifying their attacks
Are box
office for history’s adjusters.
Meanwhile
the drowned must remain drowned for good,
Their earth,
their future submerged by the flood.
D. A.
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