Lyn Lifshin
getting the goods
³In recent months, according to reports from Thailand published in the Far Eastern Economic Review, murdered infants have been used to transport heroin across the border from Thailand to Malasia²
A wind blowing through
dark elephant grass
a blood sun over the
rice fields a man
holds an infant underwater,
black hair snakes the
child gurgles then
doesnıt a plastic rattle
bobs on the water like a
head before the water goes
from blood to wet bark
the child is slit
emptied out like a trout
or a hen stuffed taut
and plump with small
bags of heroin
And before the moon is
a pale grape in the
musky nught a woman paid
as well as the dead
childıs mother will wrap
the corpse in a shawl
hug it close seeming to
smoothe the damp
hair into place as if
snuggling a sleeping
baby getting the
goods over the border