CHILD WITCH

favoured chosen quick
to give offence
its florid memory

children are moving
among us can
see what we cannot see

so quietly they
turn to marble
faces of injury

(and such injury)
again again
endear and endanger

the accusation’s
dance on the point
of a pointed finger

that is the purpose
of being It
to brandish without fear

the black fairytale
Kalashnikov
no pax for this child nor

peace for the shaven
man now bleeding
into his cloud of nails