Poem — Graham Lindsay

Hospital in Kabul

Girl with heavily

bandaged right

knee and bandages

on the left leg down

to her calf, beyond which

nothing

stares stricken-eyed.

No one breaks the tableau

nurse, doctor

or member of the camera crew

to rescue her

from the terror

of pain live in our face

on the dinner news.

 

 

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