Matryoshka (I see my old age in the faces of three women living in chernobyl’s exclusion zone)
I love my native lands and I love my graves. —Hanna Zavorotnya, The Babushkas of Chernobyl Babushka No. 1 When you unfurl your head scarf, I half expect dupa1-length hair; instead, you wear it thinly-cropped, the grey cut close to the flesh. I suppose it’s easier this way, to sever…