Mary Kay Rummel After Viewing the Documentary Shake Hands With the Devil Rwanda, the silence of the world is so heavy above you that the stars slow their burning there were houses like dead goats women, men wrapped in each other as if the whole world had drowned in blood what is this day that began with ominous singing the bread, the milk, the heated pan the tree branch swinging in wind the one bird perched at its crown this day when history turns its back when all reason turns to ash in the grazing lands no gods, no men come to help only children with faces of angels dead on the road and covered with flies |