Babi Yar 2019

At Babi Yar a monument is there
now.
Its polished granite and cast iron juts out over the
ravine.
The twisted bodies tumble, caught.
It’s Soviet,
so the later Hebrew text lies next to one
that mourns
the deaths of one hundred thousand
citizens.
All around the gritty life of Kiev
goes on.
I place a stone on a Hebrew word.

And leave.

Rupert Moreton

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