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What to do with
this information? Where
to keep it safely
hogtied? Just enough
showing through
a window
to say,
should it become necessary,
I was not
silent.
The century-
old question:
What after all
can one
do
this side of
the ocean,
AP photo,
flat screen?
Her name is
Layla.
She cries,
does not know to
hope, to think
I will wait. Only
that it is dark, pain
attacks me.
Mama.
A starving man
claws endless
rubble, seeks
a lever to move
the world.
James Caton is an emerging author who recently completed his first novel, The Salt, and is at work on a book of poems, to be titled Nakba ('catastrophe' in Arabic) and a book of stories, to be titled Clock Maker and Other Stories. He lives and writes in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
