Although Switzerland was not actively involved in WWII, it suffered a total of seventy bombings by Allied airplanes between 1940 and 1945.
A little girl grips the one toy she was
allowed to carry away through crowds
stumbling together from their homes.
They have left the city
and their blind games
under the white bone of the sun
A girl is playing on the green slopes of a valley in Kurdistan, on the border between Iran and Iraq, when her kite is suddenly swept across the river by the wind. Three boys on the other side see her calling for help, but cannot make out what she is saying: she is just too far away. Separated by the river, the children try to communicate with each other – yet between them lie the explosive remnants of past wars.
In the orchards, the old revolutionaries
Have gathered again for tea
That his dead
brother he
bringing him home.
The women are lighting Shabbos candles
with Molotov Cocktails — A baby is passed to arms
on a train.
Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain.
My mind suddenly shifts
to tally one week’s arithmetic of grief:
eighty children among the hundreds killed
in a fine-tuned cone of shrapnel
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