Poems of the Week

Russian to Alaska

by Alex Steelsmith

“Two Russians flee to Alaska by small boat and ask for asylum…
more than 60 miles from mainland Russia…”
NBC

Riskily Russkily,
Two Russian nationals
jump in a dinghy with
no time to wait;

wanting no part in the
Russo-Ukrainian
war, they aim eastward and
keep Bering Strait.