The A1 Verse: Our world in stupor lies
By Thomas Gaulkin | March 14, 2022
(Thomas Gaulkin / Jan Kopřiva / Tetiana Shyshkina)
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 14, 2022.
We suspect it’ll occur again.
How Far Will Putin Go? West Is Left Guessing.
(from the original by David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt)
sounding the alarm,
a terrifying endgame
in western reaches
Together, we make the world safer.
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Keywords: Russia, The A1 Verse, Ukraine, W. H. Auden, haiku, poetry, war
Topics: Special Topics
Thomas Gaulkin
Thomas Gaulkin is multimedia editor at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Prior to joining the Bulletin in 2018, he spent the... Read More
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