Before: Elderly Irina Fyodorovna on a drab armchair
watching TV in her apartment in Slovyansk, Ukraine
where profligate Russian artillery suddenly finds her.
After: the TV upside down, blood pooling on the floor
a relative roots in debris for a photo to put on her grave.

(Photograph at Papua new Guinea,1943)

Three lie splayed on the wet sand
just above the calm retreating surf,
the nearest one half burrowed in.
All are foreground to a half-sunk boat,
its prow tilting up toward the sky.