![]() You can see the light through the clumsily sewn up holes Loses its head how the roof of a letter м Is ambushed: through the broken window ofĪ letter д other countries watch how a letter і How can poetry describe something like this? How can any language speak of a country that’s bombarded while the rest of the world looks on? In the middle of the ransacked city of Bucha stands a house whose owners cannot return to it because of radiation-an invisible war that still lives in those rooms, long after the soldiers are gone. Because the young soldiers brought very high levels of radiation with them from Chernobyl into Lesyk’s Bucha house, it is no longer habitable. No one told them what they were heading into, Lesyk tells me. Russian soldiers occupied his house, Lesyk tells me he says the same young soldiers invaded Chernobyl before coming to Bucha, having no idea of the disaster that unfolded there more than 35 years ago. ![]() So writes Ukrainian poet Lesyk Panaisuk, who lost his home in Bucha. ![]() Sentences that are blown by the mines in the avenues, stories/ Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to playĬlinging to one another standing up forming words no one wants to shout/ ![]()
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