Poems

Wild Flowers

A poem by Ali Coby Eckermann, South Australia

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Author: Jens Korff
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Mallets pound fence posts
in tune with the rifles
to mask massacre sites

Cattle will graze
sheep hooves will scatter
children's bones

Wildflowers will not grow 
where the bone powder
lies

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[1] Sun Herald 6/2/2011

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