This poem is taken from PN Review 234, Volume 43 Number 4, March - April 2017.
Three Poems
If Only
if only the children
of Iraq
Afghanistan
Syria
were whales
or elephants
tigers
or gazelles
if only
childlife
were a fashionable cause
if only countries
came with labels:
No children have been harmed
to preserve this polity.
Oymyakon
Oymyakon on the Indigirka river,
coldest town on earth where geography upends
...
if only the children
of Iraq
Afghanistan
Syria
were whales
or elephants
tigers
or gazelles
if only
childlife
were a fashionable cause
if only countries
came with labels:
No children have been harmed
to preserve this polity.
Oymyakon
Oymyakon on the Indigirka river,
coldest town on earth where geography upends
...
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