666
666 LIBERATED
all is quiet in the sambisa forest the stoning
the explosions +the crushing by tanks stopped
the silence is full of un-screamed screams the
freed women+children some in shock others
bewildered line up for tea +a stew of baobab
leaves
many of the new babies in rags suffering from
malnutrition warlords of forced marriages didn’t
provide board just rooms malaria+rape commonplace
Lami Musa 27 forced to marry the man who slaughtered
her husband the whereabouts of their 3 children unknown
now she is walking home with a week old baby born in captivity
the military will turn survivors over to the National Emergency
Management Agency new home a dust blown refugee camp set
among baobab trees
Rachel Yehuda psychiatrist NYC has found that children of mothers
with PTSD are 3x as likely to have it +6x more likely to be depressed
+anxious sunset in sambisa forest piles of stones crushed bones +
land mines pink skies+resurrection
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6000 yr. old witness to Boko Haram
savagery the sacred African Baobab tree
symbol of immortality
Spring 2015
songanddancegirl 