by Howie Good
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| After six years of war in Yemen, it looks like the world’s worst humanitarian crisis is being forgotten and treated with indifference. —Atlantic Council, September 17, 2020. Photo: Burying a child who was killed in an airstrike in Sana, Yemen, in 2017. Credit: Yahya Arhab/European Pressphoto Agency via The New York Times, September 16, 2020. |
A boy lies sprawled
by the edge of the road,
his chest torn open
by a chunk of shrapnel.
You could see his heart beating
if you bothered to look.
Howie Good is the author of The Death Row Shuffle, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.