in this brief half life

in this brief half life spring the morning feels delicious/all wounds explained here, all hurts let fall, all knives bandaged, all empires arrested. all castles unbuilt, all symbols embarrassed/ a fragile glass crown at the broken heart of europe-the holocaust memorial and side-by-side hiroshima strasse. never again please israel, never again please iran, never again […]

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postcards from Pripyat

При́пять (Pripyat) was founded in 1970 to house workers for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979 but was abandoned in 1986 following the Chernobyl disaster. It was the ninth nuclear city (“атомоград” (atomograd) in Russian, literally “atom city”) in the Soviet Union at the time. Its population had […]

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