Day 826
Ceasefire III, Day 91
This is where
the explosion was.
You can pinpoint it
on the map.
It was in the tent camp
that was in the Green Zone
that was in the third month
of what they were still calling
a cease fire. This is the young man
who was in one of the tents
destroyed in the fire
because of the explosion.
See his dark hair. His
neatly trimmed beard.
His smooth face –
was he twenty-five?
twenty-eight? – that he’d
found some water
to wash and shave
only that morning.
Here on this side
of the yellow line.
Look at this map.
You can pinpoint
just where they killed him,
where he lay
on the ground, his
melted tent sticking to him.
This is where his friends
and his brothers
picked up his charred body,
bore it away.