small brown hands

There was a white face

that spoke on the T.V.

He said the brown

small faces,

taken from their

brown mothers as
their brown hands reach-

were being sent 

to the equivalent of 

a Summer Camp.

Summer Camp
like the ones named
after the red faces
killed off long ago
by the great great great
fathers of white faces

Summer Camp
with

Small brown hands
making leather wallets

arts and crafts

(glitter and beads)
first kisses

canoeing on sleepy lakes

singing by campfire.

yes white face this is a camp.

sexual assault
illness
death

this is that kind of camp-

killing something inside them

some will never have words for

small brown hands always reaching-

until they close shut.

small brown hands in fists
they will carry for life