As you may or may not have already heard, there were twin bomb attacks in Oslo this afternoon. A bomb went off at the city center about 5 km from campus, and I actually heard it and thought it was thunder. Later in the afternoon, there was a shooting at a youth camp for the Labour Party in an island. All in all, I've heard of 18 casualties. I was almost not going to write a poem, but I decided I had to capture what I felt when I walked outside shortly after hearing. Everyone and everything was so fragile. I will also be out of the city this weekend, so I'll be posting twice on Sunday again.
rolling quiet
just static of
shock a scream
couldnt pass through
the air is too brittle
no birds
but ashes
no weeping rain
but smoke hangs
too bleak for rain or birds
Unpublished Material, ©2011 Cali Digre
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