Full title: from a photograph of a Ukrainian woman in Kyiv in August 2025 looking skywards after the most recent Russian air raid
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On her face, grief, disbelief,
And a certain underskin of contempt.
In Moscow, in Tel Aviv,
Shared contempt.
Nothing like that seen
Under the sky over Kyiv.
Here it is a promise.
What's under the skin
In those two cities, kinned,
Is failed denial of shame.
Roaring engorgement.