Five Haiku/Tanka About Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

by

John J. Dunphy

under bombardment

wounded are evacuated

from the hospital

— John J. Dunphy

VFW Post

a couple of Nam vets discuss

going to Ukraine

— John J. Dunphy

child

learning her numbers

counts aloud while her father

loads rounds into

an AK-47 magazine

— John J. Dunphy

fleeing on foot

Ukrainian family

pauses to allow

their leashed dog

to mark his territory

— John J. Dunphy

clinic ruins

a man salvages

his dead daughter’s crutches

— John J. Dunphy

John J. Dunphy owns The Second Reading Book Shop in Alton, IL. His poetry collections include Touching Each Tree, Zen Koanhead, Stellar Possibilities, Old Soldiers Fading Away, pagan rites and Dark Nebulae.