six-year-olds play “Tape the Heart on the Tin-Man,” red cardboard
held out to a concrete wall. They’re blindfolded
but unbruised, protective parents
gathering close behind, whispering about waterboarding
Read it in Michigan Quarterly Review
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six-year-olds play “Tape the Heart on the Tin-Man,” red cardboard
held out to a concrete wall. They’re blindfolded
but unbruised, protective parents
gathering close behind, whispering about waterboarding
Read it in Michigan Quarterly Review