Cantonment

 

The goat genitals cooked beneath

the sun, losing their pinkness

 

after two days. One man pissed

on them on his way to prayer without

 

thinking about the body they used

to hang on. Two naked kids

 

poked at the rotting thing,

the flesh tore and excreted

 

nothing. The meat soaked in

the basin in its own sinkside

 

bloom and gloom.

 
 
 

Noor Shahzad is an undergraduate at Salisbury University studying creative writing