The Whirlwind Review
Issue 1


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Yaqoob Ghaznavi

Driftwood Court

September 16, 2008
3 shootings in Toronto

one of victims
a high school student
16

you say:

too many poems
with pain and misery

but how does
a poet stop
feeling a parent’s grief
the classmate’s trauma

I do see the beauty

in fragile, delicate
roses you plant
and in the pair of eagles
bisecting the sun

but the ink dries
only blood remains

please forgive me


The following week, three more shootings took place at Driftwood Court.






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