Podcast of "Nine Botanists in Stalingrad"

"Nine Botantist in Stalingrad" by Mercedes Lawry appeared in the 9.3 (Spring 2005) issue of The 2River View. Listen to the poem by clicking the title.

Nine Botanists Starve in Stalingrad

The wolf came out of the ice.
The men diminished slowly, was it
one at a time? Imagination was the nature
of their hunger, and then their death.
The seeds stayed safe, heritage and hope.
Eventually, wheat, corn, potatoes.
Science is neither benign nor malignant.
It goes on without nourishment,
becoming fields of marvelous green.