a sonnet homage to the kursk sinking 15 years on: K-141
K-141 Captain Lieutenant Dimitri Kolesnikov in the ninth section of Kursk K-141, silence, stale air, shivering cold, of dim, dwindling hopes for any salvation. Blue pen and paper, scrawling a note (They would have loved words easy to quote, explaining why, this Messianic boomer, cruising at depth, off the Kola Peninsula…) His last entry ends: …