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Poetry

Military Drills

By Lela Samniashvili
Translated from Georgian by Mac Dunlop & Natalia Bukia-Peters
Lela Samniashvili reflects on the terrible costs of war.
September 1, 2018
Published in The Past in the Present: Writing from Georgia
Georgia
Listen to Lela Samniashvili read her poem "Military Drill" in the original Georgian.