[ On the anniversary of the war, Ukrainian-born poet Julia
Kolchinsky Dasbach appeals for public attention of the crisis in her
homeland. ]
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PORTSIDE CULTURE

ONE YEAR LATER  
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Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
February 26, 2023
Rattle
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_ On the anniversary of the war, Ukrainian-born poet Julia Kolchinsky
Dasbach appeals for public attention of the crisis in her homeland. _

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One Year Later

By _Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach _

It’s easy to look away from war

when your wallet’s empty and sink is full,

when the land and people aren’t yours,

 

when your children scream for more

of you, when your body’s pulled,

it’s easy to look away from war.

 

The soil across the water to earth’s core

brims blood, but look, the sunflowers still bloom

when the land and people aren’t yours.

 

So, you focus on the daily chores,

dig out a trench of laundry—linens, wools—

it’s easy to look away from war

 

with the dog barking, mailman at the door.

Your children speak a stranger’s tongue at school,

the land and people aren’t yours.

 

How does a house become a shore

no news can reach? Are we that cruel?

Or is it just that easy to look away from war

when the land and people aren’t yours?

Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach (www.juliakolchinskydasbach.com
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Ukraine as a Jewish refugee when she was six years old. She is the
author of three poetry collections: _The Many Names for Mother, Don't
Touch the Bones,_ and _40 WEEKS _(YesYes Books, 2023). Her recent
poems have appeared in _POETRY, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review_,
and _AGNI_, among others. She holds an MFA from the University of
Oregon and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from
the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation, Lyric Witness:
Intergenerational (Re)collection of the Holocaust in Contemporary
American Poetry, pays particular attention to the underrepresented
atrocity in the former Soviet territories. Julia is the author of the
model poem for "Dear Ukraine": A Global Community Poem
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the Murphy Fellow and Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at
Hendrix College and starting next fall, she will be the Assistant
Professor of Poetry at Denison University, and relocate with her
family to Columbus, Ohio.

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