Tuol Sleng Prison, Phnom Penh, 1999.(Poems)(Poem)

From: Confrontation | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: Kaufman, Andrew | Copyright information 
 
Tuol Sleng Prison, Phnom Penh, 1999 
 
             1. 
 
   Scraps of clothes 
      stuck in Choueng Ek's 
         bone-hard ground 
 
   are at my feet.. 
      The bodies 
         are in pits. 
 
   The skulls 
      are in plexiglass-- 
         a stupa rising high 
 
   from a field. 
      Downtown, the mural- 
         sized map 
 
   of the country 
      at the end 
         of the museum 
 
   is formed 
      with more skulls, 
         and a handful 
 
   of femurs 
     ...

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