face
old face haunts the television news,
dust thick, the child's stare at the cameras
look at him, lively curiosity
trumped by wanting mamma
he wipes blood on his hand
part of a collage with the boy dead on a beach
face down little girls' dull eyes not focussed
fear-etched cheek bones too chiselled
vulnerably available
to the undesired imagination.
Carolyn van Langenberg
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