School Demolition

By Russell Atkins
shot through 
the windows 
— murdered?

so silently

about the rooms 
the autopsy 
     begins —

the moon coroner 
working 
       late 


                                                                [Here In The, 1976]

Copyright Credit: Russell Atkins, "School Demolition" from World’d Too Much: The Selected Poetry of Russell Atkins, edited by Kevin Prufer and Robert E. McDonough. Copyright © 2019 by Russell Atkins.  Reprinted by permission of Cleveland State University Poetry Center.
Source: World’d Too Much: The Selected Poetry of Russell Atkins, edited by Kevin Prufer and Robert E. McDonough (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2019)