Light; form shadow; cast shadow and it drags on, and on. Across the ridges in the marbled concrete, like the dark hiding behind, until the light ends. What is it like, to have your head
separated from the rest of you, and cast to the side? Like the head of the Afghani citizen, skewered on a rock by the barbarians who trudged through, and ended the light of the unarmed.
Casts for crayfish, to sew their claws back on so they may hold their heads up high into the dimming light, as Canada steals the sun away. Bridges for peace and walls that break between river and canal
where teenagers row, stroke after stroke, down past dead deer and graffiti. Where the two Puerto Rican brothers hid the pieces of their mother in garbage bags, after they chopped her up, like minced vegetables. He said
the helicopter hovered feet before their boat, while black plastic bags rose from the depths filled with carbon dioxide made from decomposing flesh.
As my hands danced across his back I told him I walked along that wall to watch fireworks, or catch glimpses of a weasel that lived within the rocks. The wall was not built for the disposal of mothers,
but for the seagulls. So that they can drop their prey against it, until the shells crack and their warm innards are spilled out upon it like the hot Afghanistan sand.