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Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
February 24, 2024
Rattle
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_ Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach knows more than a thing or two about
Ukraine wars, way more to mark the passage of its second anniversary.
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Two Years Later

By Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach

The last thing I want is another poem 

about war and dead children and how 

we’ve forgotten their names. 

My children are learning to count: bones 

and wars and dead children and how 

many days are left, _Now_? they ask, _now?_ 

My children are learning to count bones–

twenty-seven in the hand, twenty-two in the skull.   

Many days are left now. They ask, _now?_ 

The last thing I want is to imagine them dead,  

twenty-seven, twenty-two, their hands, their skulls.

I keep counting to make sure they’re all there.     

The last thing I want is to imagine the dead  

we’ve forgotten. Their names, 

I keep counting to make sure. They’re all there.  

The last thing I want is another poem.

Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach is the author of three poetry collections:
_The Many Names for Mother, Don't Touch the Bones_, and _40 WEEKS_
(YesYes Books, 2023). Julia’s work has appeared in _POETRY, Prairie
Schooner, Ploughshares_, and _American Poetry Review._ Recent awards
include _Hunger Mountain_'s Ruth Stone Poetry Prize, _Michigan
Quarterly Review_'s Prize in Nonfiction, and a Sustainable Arts
Foundation Grant. She is Assistant Professor of English and Creative
Writing at Denison University.

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