TO ALL THE PHOENICIANS LOST AT SEA
"The worst day of violence
since the Muslim revolt in February."
– San Francisco Chronicle, 6/121984
June 11, 1984
The dead lay on bloodsoaked stretchers
in corporate doorways
in corporate doorways
Doctors shouted for more beds
There was no space left
in the hospital morgue
in the hospital morgue
Witnesses said women –
some in nightgowns and slippers,
rushed out to bring
their children home
from school
and two men wept
in a Beirut parking lot.
some in nightgowns and slippers,
rushed out to bring
their children home
from school
and two men wept
in a Beirut parking lot.
Poets write of Central America
I can't talk about El Salvador
I have no Nicaraguan poems
My Central America is Beirut.
6/11/1984
