Thursday, November 11, 2010

While medics treat

Nov. 3, 2010 – at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan,

medics bandage bleeding civilians hit by indirect

fire while at home garbage cans jumble at the curb,

black and blue and green, confused leaves turn

yellow and cerise, flutter, a little girl sells candy

at the door to the grocery store where baskets

hug mounded pomegranates, a woman struts

a black-and-white Great Dane, tomato vines

wither




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