it's only a small field
in another state
it's only the bodies of
the two young girls found there
my children asleep and a
storm moving in and the woman
next door standing on the sidewalk and
screaming into a phone
says no one fucks with her kids
says NO ONE FUCKS WITH HER KIDS
like maybe the war is over
like maybe we've won
all the dead soldiers in their
indifferent graves and all of the
sons and daughters they raped thrown
into a pile at the edge of town
set on fie maybe or maybe left
for the dogs and it's only
a rock dropped from a freeway bridge
it's only the face of the bride
split in two
her past left facing her future
but seeing nothing
seeing the sky through the eyes of
two young girls found
dead in a field
impossible and blue and
neverending