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Carol Rumens

Poem of the week: Welcome to Donetsk by Anastasia Taylor-Lind

‘No voices’ … A bus departing from Kurakhovo, a frontline town, to the entry checkpoint into the non-government controlled Donetsk.
‘No voices’ … A bus departing from Kurakhovo, a frontline town, to the entry checkpoint into the non-government controlled Donetsk. Photograph: Anastasia Taylor-Lind

Welcome to Donetsk

You teach me this wartime trick –
to look for living pot plants
in the windows on Kievska Avenue.
Most are crisped and brown.

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