G. S. Sharat Chandra - After the Earthquake in India

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(30 September 1993) <br /> <br />It's a habit by now <br /> head bent <br />at four a.m., the birds wake <br /> to complain <br /> <br />they do this cackling in <br /> forgotten dialects of the poor <br /> <br />yesterday's count was thirty-one-thousand <br /> as if longing for more <br /> <br /> the morning news will bring <br /> more bodies to the surface <br /> <br /> counting is one way <br />of thinning the eye <br /> to a diet of faith <br /> <br />someone says if there's divine justice <br /> it favors solid foundations <br /> <br />mud