Day 651
This baby was found
trapped under the rubble.
No one else in her household
survived. The young woman
they found — could she
have been her mother? One
of the men, her father? Were there
grandparents? Uncles? Did she
have sisters? Brothers? The children’s
bodies so shattered it was hard
to tell who these legs
belonged to, these hands. But
the baby — six months old,
seven? She was whole.
uninjured. Hungry and terrified
but intact. She cried. She looked up
into the arms of the medical rescuer.
Where will he take her now?
No name no certain age no address.
Someone will care for her,
but who? What story
will she never tell?