— for the children of Gaza and the Ukraine — 

That cherry blossom day,
thunder in the air,
unmiraculously, everywhere:
a stutter in the Gaia,
a low rumble, a terrible tremor,
an unholy roar begins to build and build
and sucks out the very air
total devastation
on that final day
when this very earth was undone
the land began to shiver and shake
uncontrollably, delirium tremens
everywhere, fire in the air,
& then all the skies of all the world scorched with fire,
& the air exploded,
fusing flesh with flesh
melts into a whiteness
from which
the dark shadow of a child
slowly emerges shivering and shaking.
and bleeding and crying.

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