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The Dead Hand

Uliana Saenko 2006 (Moscow)

Free verse
dip your fingers into my burnt ribcage
wield the ash across your face as grief
where do you draw the line
in the blood soaked ground?

let the dead hand point its decaying finger to the enemy
until the air raid sirens sing their last, desolate song
that no one else will hear

About this poem

Based on the Soviet Union’s nuclear system, “The Dead Hand”, that assures mutual destruction.

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Written on January 05, 2024

Submitted by sakhara.uliana on January 11, 2024

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Scheme XXXX XXX
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 277
Words 56
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 3
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Uliana Saenko

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