Now Fiercer Grows The Battle's Rage Poem by Chen-ou Liu

a tanka set written in response to The Guardian, May 26: Russian forces have 'upper hand' in Donbas fighting, Ukrainian officials say

braids of smoke
through the blank-page sky
a boy's face
in the cellar window
of a half-collapsed house

streaks of blood
on the hospital hallway...
a gray-haired nurse
looks out the broken window
to see Luhansk anew

FYI: The title is taken from an Irish ballad, The Battle of the Boyne, a historical battle fought in 1690 that was a critical turning point in Irish and British history.