Friday, October 20, 2017

Bare witness


It was miraculous-
the way life gets to see itself
Change
genetics 1-oh-1
the children brought here
with great struggle
and left to die
without effort
holes on hearts and all
last names
shorter than
last words.


Watercolor by William Blake c. 1794 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
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