The Wheel

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The Wheel
The Wheel
a revolving wheel of metal chairs
hung on chains, squealingfour little children flying out
a blind man sings in arabicnow you see them, now you don’t
the children vanish behind a vehiclenow you see them, now you don’t
faces, limbs, a bouncing skulllittle children, don’t disappear
I heard it was twenty-eight thousand
lost upon a revolving wheel
I heard it was twenty-eight thousand
all that’s left after a year
I heard it was twenty-eight thousand
a faded face, the trace of an ear
I heard it was twenty-eight thousanda tableau of the missing
tied to the government buildingthousands of sun-bleached photographs
fading with the roses