A man enters a mosque
at Friday prayers
Israeli settler
opens fire with automatic death,
Noon is so barren
I can fill it with a bucket,
take mop
and go swashing
what remains
along the floorboards
Impossible! A giant horse
dancing through the hotel lobby
with a brass band,
throwing out coins.
The bride comes after
her flowered accomplices,
David Radavich_s poetry collections include Slain Species (Court Poetry Press, London), By the Way: Poems over the Years (Buttonwood Press, 1998), and Greatest Hits (Pudding House, 2000). Most recent is America Bound: An Epic for Our Time, just out from Plain View Press in January 2007.