Poems of the Week

Something’s Amissing In Action

by Alex Steelsmith

“… 42 Russian colonels have died on the ground in Ukraine…”
Newsweek

“Russia Is Counting Killed Soldiers as ‘Missing’ to Hide Losses.”
Newsweek

Jiggery-pokery,
colonels on battlefronts
simply go missing, says
Putin. Forsooth,

while he prevaricates
propagandistically,
one more goes missing: a
colonel of truth.