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SARAJEVO

Here, daybreak
will be a slow rain
of fire.

Children are planted like bulbs
before monuments engraved
with innumerable names
for darkness.

Winter, pigeons
will scratch in the deepening
humus, and come spring
tulips will break out over
the city like a plague.

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