submitted by Kimberly Yarbrough Carpenter, Monroe, LA
Wake up little one
If you don’t come
Then I’ll take the baby.
Be quiet, lie still
Papa has work for you
The nighttime is when I pick
The freshest of fruit
Busted cherries bleed red
Stains the teeth
Stains the sheets
Block the ringing pain
It’s Thanksgiving again
The turkey’s huge
Dessert is you.
submitted by Carly Swenson, Montana
submitted by Yona Levy Grosman, Moshav Ein-Habsor, Israel
A little girl of six
Who learned to read
Only A and B
And in Arabic, perhaps, this reads differently,
A little girl only six years old
Was murdered,
Ssssss…
Murdered by her father and her mother
In the name of family honor
Whose spirit
Had already been murdered
At the hands of foreign
Rapists
A little girl of only six
Murdered,
Ssssss…
Murdered
Time
After
Time
A little girl of six.
Little girl
Of
Shhhhhsix…
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