In a New York Times article yesterday, September
2nd, 2024, about Russia bombing Kharkiv, on a
Sunday,
is the news that among the six people immediately
killed (59 were wounded, 20 of them in serious
condition),
one was a fourteen-year-old girl. Perhaps
in Ukrainian newspapers
she
has a name. No information about her
parents, no mention of
what she hoped to be, who she was
at fourteen except
that along with five others who were all
presumably adults, she perished.
Gone, gone forever, as we all know
death means, war
means,
nothing
readers can do to bring her back or
even honor her life, or the other five
that were present one moment and past
and past and past and past and past and past.
.
John Levy
Drawing: Farewell by Kathe Kollwitz
.