Ray Heinrich

GENOCIDE EATS THE LAMB

Right there,
in this photograph
of hands reaching,
genocide eats the lamb.

The neigbors she grew up with
are busy killing her brother,
there in this photograph
of hands reaching.

This will be explained
to her grandchildren,
long after
all the hands
and the remembering
of all the hands,
are over.

This photograph
will be denied,
just as she
will be denied,
just as she
will remember,
a hand reaching,
and one more
and one more
becoming
all the hands
reaching.