Poem: Aleppo Oslo Jos Boston
A version of this story ran in the April 2016 issue.
“Chaos has no plural.”
Carlos Fuentes
This is a red letter dated
15 April. The sound then the smoke
and the video
on a loop on phones
in a bus in the next place.
[Featured image: Adam Howarth/Flickr/Creative Commons]
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