From the Pile

here’s a map
marking the moments
of monstrous evil

the times when people
floated down from the fire
and in the smoke
and in the rubble
landed

or women and children
herded into airtight rooms
made to answer
for unreasoning hate

hate the common refrain
of all these places of interest
in the times
and the spaces
of monstrous evil

the collapsing
of buildings and of
innocence
a…