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Sarah Browning: Killing Summer
I.
The Washington Post, Section B, Local Briefs:
another boy dead, and another –
Across town.
Down the block.
In the alley.
In his car.
A few feet from a middle school.
At a bus shelter.
Dead at the scene.
Pronounced dead at the hospital.
Motive unknown.
Suspects unknown.
.
II.
City of split heads, city of gun shops sprouting,
city of playing the dozens across the steaming streets.
.
Streets of rain and fast anger, streets
of whistling, streets of mourning.
.
Mourning silence of lamp post shrines,
Sunday dinners cooking slowly in stewpots.
.
Stewpots of greens and fatback, all manner of potatoes,
pork that tumbles begging from the bone.
.
III.
The dead young men lie in the city morgue, keeping company
with their dead brothers. It is Saturday.
.
Shake out the newspaper.
Shake death from the bus shelter.
July in DC, killing summer.
.
What city are we?
How do we call ourselves neighbors?
—
copyright 2015 Sarah Browning
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