by Kit Zak
School Shooting, Washington Post: 10/22/13
garners page three
no front page treatment
a kid wielding a semi-automatic
middle-school battlefield
common
as dirt
twelve-year-olds
with PTSD
nightmare’s
undying sun-blot
childhood
obliterated
We shrug weary shoulders
the politicians’ dead words
await
the NRA's whitewash
Kit Zak retired from university teaching and moved to the beach in Delaware, where she has been involved in environmental causes. She has published most recently in The Broadkill Review, The Blue Collar Review, A Time of Singing, and Avocet.