Isn’t it?

What’s happening these days
in Nanking, Auschwitz
and Wounded Knee
is as normal as anywhere else.

And terrifying…
Corn is growing
in Gettysburg.
Morning traffic flows
in Warsaw. Cafes are open
today in Nagasaki.

Luckily for us, curtains
are drawn around the awful.
Beetles, mushrooms
and grass are summoned
to cover things up.

Bells ring as usual in villages
where children were run down
by Visigoths on horseback.
Luxury liners cruise
over lives lost
in waters near Trafalgar.

Birds still fly, there are
mountains and sky
as well as summer days
when people walk around
the American tank
on display at the Khe Sanh
Combat Base Museum
licking ice cream cones.