For the children of Dunblane, Scotland
By Ed Higgins
“Evil visited us yesterday
and we don’t know why.”
—Dunblane school principal (13 March 1996)
and we don’t know why.”
—Dunblane school principal (13 March 1996)
The faint breath
of knowing
others’ loss.
Dumb to one another
if even
asked:
When will we ever wear out
that old shoe
evil
that fits so well?
Death is always
senseless,
but sometimes
it outdoes
itself.
Ed Higgins’ poems and short fiction have appeared in various print and online journals including recently: Ekphrastic Review, CarpeArte Journal, Under the Basho, and Sum Journal, among others. Ed is Professor Emeritus, English Department, and Writer-in-Residence at George Fox University. Ed is also Assistant Fiction Editor for Brilliant Flash Fiction. He lives on a small organic farm in Yamhill, Oregon where he raises a menagerie of animals, including a male whippet, Mr. Toffee, a rooster named StarTrek, and an Indian Runner duck named Duck.