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✨ LATEST ISSUE • From ULR Issue 14 – WITNESS

Chestnut Blossom

A Kyiv chestnut blooms, defiant, its white integrity spattered with heroes' blood, refusing all shelters.

January 4, 2026

For Iuliia Hoban

So much
depends upon
a chestnut tree
blooming in Kyiv
defying sirens
refusing shelters
dripping its white glaze
of integrity
spattered with
heroes’ blood.

📖
PART OF A COLLECTION

Clytemnestra Descending and 3 other poems

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Stan Galloway

Stan Galloway writes from the hills of West Virginia (USA). He is the author/(co-)editor of 9 collections, most recently Savor: Poems for the Tongue (Friendly City Books, 2024).

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