In Lieu of Explanation
No “hot take” can ever make sense of the trauma of children.
by Sisonke Msimang
Mar 10, 2022
2 minutes
Henry Moore, Grey Tube Shelter, 1940. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Tonight, in Ukraine, children will get on the ground and scrunch themselves up into little balls, trying to make themselves smaller.
In bunkers,
in the backs of cars,
on trains.
I imagine their small arms tight around their knees.
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