seen from above / village / houses outhouses backyards walls n fences / rain / wet straw n mud / domesticated animals / fodder / shit / slime-puddles reflect lowerin grey sky / all day and into the next / men armed sword axe club spear or variant weapon / progress through gate / over wall or fence / across village / rape n pillage / violence unmistakable in noise / wave of murdering seen from above / same day same village / young man and boy wrapped tight together beneath torn blanket / blood at their feet / thats my blood / in vain / hiding / dying of wounds / fatigue / tears fall from older smear-streaked face / turned down on blanket beneath heaves child / our child / tomorrow all bodies lie cold and white / inspect this insect crawl into nostril cave / wind whips tha bare broken trees / armed men move on / pitiable consciousness of sperm egg brains