Barbara Reynolds
Aleppo Colors
Nothing green can be seen
in rubble as gray as a blueless day
not a tree not a bush
not a blade of grass grows
where white helmets probe
the debris for ashen limbs
and bloodied bodies.
Barbara Reynolds’s work has appeared in The Avocet. She is a retired high school math teacher and an instructor in the Graduate School of Education at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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