For Ukraine

Poem in response to Living Poetry’s March 14 prompt: attack, exist, roll

CNN: Survivors emerge from rubble of theater in Mariupol (3/17/22)

Roll into available shelter
when the bombs fall

Attack the weak link
in enemy lines

Melt into the surroundings
exist to fight another day

America’s thoughts and prayers
are with you

Cold WW III has started
Ukraine is the tinder