By Pavel Chichikov
I remember the fleet in the river
Long hulls with grey skins
Guns like fingers, blunt ends pointing
Turrets low in the autumn sunshine –
How many who were there can still remember?
How many dead are not remembered
Except by someone old who loves?
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