The A1 Verse: After a missile—

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 April 11, 2022.

We suspect it’ll occur again.

‘Town Is Dead’ After Station Attack

(from the original by Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Natalia Yermak)

After a missile—
the only sounds
at the railway station
a distant siren,
the rhythmic sweeping
of broken glass,
of people
swept off the face
of the earth
—screams
nobody could understand.