Death Toll
       

It was never just a tremor
that night
                like a field on fire
and it was never
a question
of who returns
the love
                to you
love is always
a victim and an accused
why see it in such bold colors
why can't there
just be
two victims
the way
it actually is
                simple as
one           two

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from Objects of Hunger
Southern Illinois University Press
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