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The Interrogation. Michael Bazzett
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isbn 9781571319623
Автор произведения Michael Bazzett
Жанр Зарубежные стихи
Издательство Ingram
2 Lazarus
7 Country Squire Landscape Services
2 Island
4 The Fact
7 Gag
8 Rain
11 For the Person I Have Not Met
13 Miles
1 [the words I have not written]
2 They
6 The Hole
11 The Light
12 The Plot
Cruelty
Then you walk into a sodden field.
It is early and smells of rain and pine.
You sense sun beyond the thin clouds.
The earth mushes beneath each footfall
and buried twigs snap beneath your soles.
Soon you are standing before a fence
made of two strands of rusted wire.
Tufts of hair are caught on its barbs,
lifting in the wind like animals.
Beyond the fence is a blank fog.
You cannot quite make out those
gathered in the whiteness beyond.
You hear only the clink of cutlery
and a child crying. There will
be no gunfire, no serrated light.
The cold will be enough, as always.
I
The City
Once we were ten miles outside the city, it
vanished completely. We suspected this
happened from the top down, with television
antennae fading into ether and asphalt
shingles glimmering, like fish scales,
then flecking into nothingness.
For a mere
moment buildings were reduced to rib cage,
people illuminated within the lattice of beams,
bent over ironing boards and countertops,
chopping cucumbers into slender green coins
until they and their knives and even the blade-
scarred board had vanished into empty air.
But there were also those who asserted
buildings softened into something like
sodden cardboard and settled slowly into
themselves. One contingent even claimed
nothing happened at all: the city simply
shifted like a sleeping animal, dreaming
of our return.
We decided to confirm
our top-down theory by hiding a camera
in