
Aleksei Bobrovnikov (© Stefanie Silber)
Through his inquiry, the Ukrainian author and investigative journalist Aleksei Bobrovnikov revealed connections between a smuggling ring and the Ukrainian military. As a result, he is getting public death threats and was forced to leave his homeland. Since February 2018, Aleksei Bobrovnikov is a scholar of the Writers-in-Exile Program of the PEN-Center in Germany.
Meaningless dates
Meaningless dates
Make you retain
the meaning.
Power of zero,
that basic math,
the thing that made empires rise and fall
long before the Manhattan project —
that multiplying power of nothing
that makes one’s purse empty
but the head
strikingly
full.