The A1 Verse: A quiet between bombardments

Every so often, a story published on the front page of the New York Times is so well written, meaningful, and appropriate to the Bulletin’s concerns that small snippets of it, properly chosen and arranged, produce something more than journalism, something that approaches … poetry. That blessed coincidence occurred March 7, 2022.

We suspect it’ll occur again.

Talking to Relatives in Russia, Ukrainians Hear, ‘What War?’

(from the original by Valerie Hopkins)

there is a war
everything is extremely scary
no no no no
stop