I.
Rubber rescue boat
leaking gasoline onto
battle-tested feet.
II.
Soon we will catch fish
whose flesh was fed
by our own.
III.
Do we all drown now
in the way of unity?
IV.
A pomegranate branch,
as makeshift life jacket
across the lap of a child
who did not choose this life.
V.
The life that did not keep her
and the life that did.