Tanya Anisimova

UKRAINE WILL WIN

Uncanny sensation is growing within me, the

Kreiser “Moskva” is above waters again

Roman, my dear brother and my brother

Andrey will serve on the vessel as

Its sailors’ intel

Nibelungen family with the oblong faces,

Estranged and hostile, refusing to think

 

We used to swim in these waters together, remember? These

Indigenous peoples, these welcoming places?

La Lugubre Gondola is now carrying us over the

Latent thick waters of the Black mourning sea

 

Will the war ever stop for those who perish? An

Inquiry tens-thousand-fold is hovering over the sea..the

New sun is rising, as imminent as Ukraine’s victory