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Robert PeakeBritish MatchesOn the matchbox, there is a child,frown like a downturned slice of melonflames decorating her thin stick arms.A single red wing arcs in saluteby the epigram: “Fire Kills Children.”Above it is the royal coat of arms.I wonder why only children. Fire killstrees, and adults, too—anything alive,once enfolded in that wing will soonhear the “shhh” of death’s librarian.My father taught me games with matches.We used to make rockets by wrappingthe match head in foil, propping iton a bent paperclip, then ticklingthe shiny underside with a flame.It would fizz into the air, danglingsmoke like a dancer’s scarf. I wentthrough whole booklets that way.Now we are six thousand miles apart,and the pale light of an unfamiliarplace lights up this new-to-me warning.In the absence of photojournalism,the idea of a child on fireis as cartoonish as a queenwhose family symbols are nationalsymbols, propped up by a unicornin a place that will never be home.16
Juan DelgadoFor AnnaThe hum of wings,a hummingbird’s hungerpuffing up the air—she feeds, a tiny storm,a redness, then hot lead,a side-way rocketpast the world’s ear.Like the wind’s sheep,dandelions flock ,following each other upward,a funnel of white,gauze-like curtainsdraping the sky.A Mountain Chickadeetoo full of seed chatterbounces on a twig;this ruckus amongthe cedar shade is a danceto waste time away.17
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