Sunday, March 15, 2026

American Fire

From the public domain


Screams of the mothers             

echo through these hills             

not so far away             

from the women searching             

through the rubble of a school             

for their murdered daughters             

finding them             

not so far away             

from this field full of robins             

in this naked scenery of March            

suddenly drying in a pitiless wind             

soon to burn             

lovesick for awhile if we're lucky             

soon to burn             




—After a Tomahawk missile struck Shajaareh Tayyabeh Primary School 
in Minab, Iran, at the beginning of "Trump's War" on February 28, 2026