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Interview in any Refugee Camp 

(for the Six O’clock News)

no hoarded treasure

can be found

in the caché of my memory

which empties as you gather

the coins that spill, for the departed

bear no gifts and fewer grudges

even when the burden of spite

grows greatest, and just

as each bud yearns

and stretches most

towards the light

that feeds it

I too grow pale

and wither

here