Monthly Archives: June 2012

stretchers in the streets 5

5

fivehundred Africans

from south of the Sahara


climbed the border fence with ladders

some fell down


or called down injuries

on themselves in police skirmishes



tides arise

in the oceans and move

to the shores

where they appear

as a regular rise

and fall

of the water surface


a very reliable movement


people died

people died in the fire


fire broke out it became a furnace

far from the passenger terminal




this poem appeared in De Gids_1 (2008)