Senseless violence in Ukraine continues into a second year, with little sign of burning itself out.
Now comes the poet-journalist Iya Kiva, writing in a revitalized Emergence magazine, fast becoming indispensable reading material within all lifeboats.
The image might well be taken yesterday in the Donbas, yet in fact portrays the burnscape left by equally as senseless violence over one hundred years ago, elsewhere.

LANDSCAPE SULLIED, BEFOULED AND POISONED BY WAR
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Lifeboats will require art & music of every kind; and let us hope there is plenty of room for Dakh Daughters:
“I am a monster and the world is my oyster.”
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