A Depot in Ukraine, poem by Mark Scheel at Spillwords.com

A Depot in Ukraine

A Depot in Ukraine

written by: Mark Scheel

 

Ezra Pound in the metro
and Williams with
plums and red wheelbarrow
kept it simple. So—

atop the smoldering rubble,
amid the missile fragments,
a blood-soaked teddy bear
lends witness to silence.

What more
need be said?

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