One year ago today Putin's troops invaded Ukraine. Tens of thousands have died and still the fighting continues. I know this poem is a repeat but I feel that it remains appropriate.
Concepts atop Constructs
24 February 2022
Putin mirrors Ted Hughes' "Tractor"
frozen in time, in snow and ice.
"Hands like wounds inside armor gloves . . ."
The despot's battery, the need to regain
Russian glory, "hammering and hammering"
until it "jabbers . . . mockingly / Into happy
life. And stands / shuddering itself full
of heat . . ." Vladimir triggers his troops
". . . vibrating condemned obedience
Of iron to the cruelty of iron,"
and sends his hubris rumbling into Ukraine.
Marilyn Aschoff Mellor
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