1945


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?


(Click here to follow Pavel's ongoing epic poem “The Shoulder of the Sun.” You may visit Pavel's website at http://www.greyowlpress.com.)

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