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Tin

December 5, 2008 3 comments

On tv we saw a woman living
with her kids in a tin slum.

She showed the camera man
an open stove, a hairbrush
on a box that was her bedside table.

Along one wall, dirty water trickled
around bullet holes, ticking,

limned by the reporter’s voice-over.
How we like to focus on what’s close up.

We don’t even know where the bullets go—

through cities and forests, clean
into the open air.

by Sarah J. Sloat

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Approaching the Nuclear Facility

November 17, 2008 3 comments

The vase is thrown
with greyish clay, sculpted
to stack like bracelets
laid to cinch near the middle.

Livestock graze the grass.
Clover sprouts unbothered.

From the hilltop, the bracelets form
the elongated neck of a Ndebele—
foreign, disembodied
in the pasture’s lap,

facing who knows
which direction.

by Sarah J. Sloat

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