by David Radavich
How best to
sacrifice a child?
Hand him over
to gang-leaders’ guns?
Pay for blood
in coinage?
Or give him to
government forces
in a simple box
I nailed myself?
Open her body
before the cathedral
with a scythe?
Or go to the U.S.
and shiver in a cage
without food
or shower or a bed?
Solomon, tell me
how to divide
this child
so her soul
can sing tomorrow.
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How best to
sacrifice a child?
Hand him over
to gang-leaders’ guns?
Pay for blood
in coinage?
Or give him to
government forces
in a simple box
I nailed myself?
Open her body
before the cathedral
with a scythe?
Or go to the U.S.
and shiver in a cage
without food
or shower or a bed?
Solomon, tell me
how to divide
this child
so her soul
can sing tomorrow.
David Radavich's latest book is America Abroad: An Epic of Discovery (2019), companion volume to his earlier America Bound: An Epic for Our Time (2007). Other recent poetry collections are Middle-East Mezze (2011) and
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