Levi Meir Clancy, Ruined Photos in a Destroyed Home in Sinjar, Iraq
ISIS
Pamela Hughes
Perhaps it’s all
propaganda
made up by black ops,
the neocolonial Empire builders
playing destabilization’s dirty game.
Or maybe it’s a combination of the two.
Nevertheless, we can’t say your name anymore–
as one cannot utter the word bomb on a plane.
Though you searched for Osiris’s scattered body parts,
you never found the 14th piece of his puzzle.
His phallus was eaten by a Nile fish,
so you
fashioned another one out of gold–
your new gold standard
goldenrod flower gift,
Osiris stitches of flesh at tumescent rest.
Today your name still invokes images
of body parts and loss–
men, women, children,
Palestinian, Syrian, Yemeni, more–
so many remain in pieces
lying in exploded repose
pieces
pieces
pieces,
shred-
ded bodies,
parts that will never
be found.
Pamela Hughes
Perhaps it’s all
propaganda
made up by black ops,
the neocolonial Empire builders
playing destabilization’s dirty game.
Or maybe it’s a combination of the two.
Nevertheless, we can’t say your name anymore–
as one cannot utter the word bomb on a plane.
Though you searched for Osiris’s scattered body parts,
you never found the 14th piece of his puzzle.
His phallus was eaten by a Nile fish,
so you
fashioned another one out of gold–
your new gold standard
goldenrod flower gift,
Osiris stitches of flesh at tumescent rest.
Today your name still invokes images
of body parts and loss–
men, women, children,
Palestinian, Syrian, Yemeni, more–
so many remain in pieces
lying in exploded repose
pieces
pieces
pieces,
shred-
ded bodies,
parts that will never
be found.