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Dina elenboGen
Missing
Blame it on the brutal winter tomatoes still not ripe enough to pick
her her mother at work all day
until midnight Now she’s gone
missing 15 black last seen on her her bike no helmet wanting to go anywhere
except where she went missing I miss miss you these days
You’ve missed the the point of our silence the place where river turns to lake
Three boys missing in in the the the West Bank
were were found We were were right there
gathering
Sea daffodils when cell phones rang with the news
The country knew weeks before they they announced that they were no longer
missing but dead white 15 15 15 15 and 17
I I miss when I I could speak
in black and white when words weren’t so often missing An Israeli soldier missing in in action is is dead inside his helmet What’s missing from the story
is is whether he he he he had been captured first then killed by his own ammunition
I I miss when I I could speak
into your ear instead of dancing over the the missing spaces the way that poems do
The missing girl’s face
is on the the tunnel below the the tracks where I run before sunrise
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