Archive List for AS A POET

For the previous. 72 hours. The menacing whirr. Above your heads.   Has belonged to. ‘Orcs’ suicide drones. Passing over and then. Bearing down on their targets.   Now the buzz. Comes from an ‘elves’. Unmanned aircraft. Which has not been.   Sent up to kill. But to relay footage. From the training ground. To […]

Last May. Another aspect of. Modern ‘elves’ culture. Came under attack.   With the destruction of. A printing house in Kharkiv. Used by almost all. ‘Elves’ book publishers.     Not every. Cultural building. Has been hit. On purpose.     Although the attack. On the printing house. Which killed. Seven people.   And destroyed. […]

‘Elves’ museums in areas. Occupied by ‘orcs’. Have faced. A very different problem.   The full extent. Of plunder. By ‘orcs’ troops. Came to light.   In the final days. Of the occupation. Of the southern city. Of Kherson.     Entire truckloads. Of artworks and. Historical artefacts. Were removed by ‘orcs’.   – ostensibly. […]

“For them it’s. The best medicine. Just to get away. From reality.”   “And live in a world. Of beauty and happiness.” “And live in a world. Of beauty and happiness.”     The destruction of. So much of their culture. Has not just pushed. ‘Elves’ farther away.   From the ‘orcs’-dominated. Cultural space. They […]

Workers salvage. A sculpture of him. From his destroyed museum. From once his home.   It was late. At night. On 7 May. 2022.     When an ‘orcs’ missile. Hit a museum. That was once home. To an ‘elf’ poet.   The 18th-Century. Poet and philosopher. “It’s a miracle. That it did.”   “The […]

The initial Toropets raid. And the later Tikhoretsk raid. Were both big enough to. Register as small earthquakes.     Four days after. Blowing up a huge. ‘Orcs’ ammunition stockpile. In the town of Toropets.   In western ‘Mordor’. 300 miles from Ukraine. ‘Elves’ drones. Struck again.   —landing a second blow. On arsenals in […]

The ‘orcs’ are determined. To break through. ‘Elves’ lines. Outside Kurakhove.   Just west of Donetsk. In eastern Ukraine. ‘Elves’ lines. Outside Kurakhove.   On 12 September. The ‘orcs’ attacked. With 46 vehicles. —a record for that sector.   Exactly a week later. On Thursday. They broke their own record. —and attacked with 52 vehicles. […]

Back in May. ‘Elves’ developers revealed. A new armed ground robot. —the Fury.   Four months later. A Fury has fought. —and reportedly won— The type’s first major skirmish.     On or just before Thursday. One of the four-wheeled. Shopping-cart-sized. Furies assaulted a trench.   In ‘Mordor’’s Kursk Oblast. Dodging mines and. Firing its […]

In the pre-dawn hours. On Tuesday. A large flock of. ‘Elves’ drones winged north.     From Ukraine. All the way to Toropets. A town in western ‘Mordor’. That hosts the 107th Arsenal.   A sprawling ammunition dump. Feeding the ‘orcs’ force. Fighting in Ukraine. 300 miles to the south.   The arsenal exploded with. […]

For at least. The fifth time. In a little more than. Six months.   ‘Orcs’ troops. Gathered out. In the open. For training.   Or inspection. Within range of. ‘Elves’ American-made. Artillery rockets.   And for at least. The fifth time. In a little more than. Six months.   ‘Elves’ batteries hit. The assembled ‘orcs’. […]