Lawrence Hall
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                                     ­       The Fog of What?

                        “Russian Attack Sets Ukraine Nuclear Plant on Fire”

                                            -BBC, 3 March 2022

The radiation from Zaporizhzhia
Might slither across our poor dying earth
Like serpents bringing our sins back home to us
That we might meditate upon them in death

And all our unpaid bills, our ungiven thanks
The cars we meant to fill with gas today
Like Bible pages rustling in the nuclear wind
Will have to be completed by a different hand

But this fog of war, that’s what they call it -
In truth it’s only the fog of ////