Record Tracklist

1. The Wheel
   The Wheel
   
   

   a revolving wheel of metal chairs
   hung on chains, squealing

   four little children flying out
   a blind man sings in arabic

   now you see them, now you don’t
   the children vanish behind a vehicle

   now you see them, now you don’t
   faces, limbs, a bouncing skull

   little 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 thousand

   a tableau of the missing
   tied to the government building

   thousands of sun-bleached photographs
   fading with the roses