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| At least 25 refugees, including 10 children, drowned in the Aegean on Thursday when their boat sank off the coast of the Greek island of Samos. The refugees were trying to reach the island from the coast of Turkey, just a few miles away, when the vessel went down. It was not known what caused the accident, but there have been dozens of similar tragedies in recent months, caused by people traffickers cramming too many refugees onto small boats. The Greek coast guard said that of the drowned children, five were boys and five girls. Ten survivors were rescued. —The Telegraph, Jan. 28, 2016. AP Photo Coast guard vessel arrives with the dead bodies of migrants at the port of Vathi on the eastern Greek island of Samos. |
Out of the water,
his small ear
to the air—
we saw the photos,
froze,
outrage spilled over.
But in real time, the mean time,
eyes dry and tides change
yet the children of nowhere
keep dying on the waves
not over there
for there is no there but here
and no them but us
dying
in their wet clothes.
Cally Conan-Davies is a writer who lives by the sea.