For Natalia Otrishchenko
by Stan Galloway
Between air raid sirens life hovers
dust photographs
clean tabletops
cook dumplings
bathe children
replaster walls
grow flowers for the dead
dig trenches
try to reconnect uprooted
people / dispossessed
not properly grieved
waiting for time to start again.
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