Balkan Pine

In the days since I fell
my skin has hardened –
red-brown, stretched tight –
weeping from the craters
where their bullets came.

If you come now, I smell of water, earth;
pine forest clings to my clothes.
There is no corruption. You smell
the men who did this,
who went away laughing.

 Ford 1999

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