Balkans Harvest 1992

A quiet village surrounded by farms
preparing for harvest is visited
by soldiers from another country.

They take a hundred men
into the fields where
something is sown,
something is reaped.

Hours later
the quiet village surrounded by farms
is exited by soldiers from another country
who have harvested
a bucketful of testicles.

The women from
the quiet village surrounded by farms
draw water from the widows' well
and dare not ask the question.