Crystal Snoddon: Poetry and Other Lamentations
In the spirit of new beginnings
Fenced Daisy Field - photo credit: Crystal Snoddon
the children
because they are prone 383 children lie//stand//fall little limbs misshaped wide, their colors, their pores pressed between layers of digital fungus a trap set by sticky fingers exposed, their pixel skins breathe
383 children birthed to operation Broken Heart
may inhale beyond the pages, believe lizards trickle fairy tales tears, while they bleed from clefts of torn innocence.
ii. sweet children:
you are not alone.………you, 383, you have been found, but
others cry compressed air into ribs//into throats clamped//voices enslaved in virtual silence.
to the seeming endless scream on the screen: the web vibrates with searching — your mouths shake sternums and clavicles, blow bony cacophony into trade winds that grasp and claw.
iii.
a child’s rain
gathers between small scapular curves, nestles into the indents where shame might hang elastic sputum memories of fat lips and thin lips, hide the blisters of chapped hands who brand the thinnest skin.
find a balm, blameless children, allow your heels to sink into cool ground, allow your nostrils to fill with the scent of the sun.
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More than 2,300 online sex offenders arrested June 2018. The operation, named “Broken Heart,” was led by the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC). https://www.oxygen.com/crime-time/more-than-2300-online-sex-offenders-arrested
https://iamnotasilentpoet.wordpress.com/2018/06/25/the-children-by-crystal-snoddon/
published June 25, 2018. Thank you, Reuben.
