blackberries
ripening in the summer sun
budget cuts
© Rachel Green July 2024
We have no fear
of the drone of flying engines
at least in England, presently.
I was probably ten
before my father stopped flinching
at the sound of aeroplanes.
How do Ukrainians react
to the sounds of Russian death dealers?
Or is the first you know of a rocket
the destruction of someone you love?
Did those Israeli teenagers
hear the rocket coming
over their football game?
In sixty years I have never feared death
will arrive on silvered wings.
© Rachel Green July 2024
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