Ukraine

Poem by Richard Stewart

'The longest queues are for seeds.' | Photo: by Xiangkun ZHU on Unsplash

In the market place
Where the few stalls left
Are flanked by the rubble
Of shopping centres, apartment blocks
And a still smouldering maternity clinic,
The longest queues are for seeds.

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