Magic Poem by Ronald Shields

I see a child
whose life is dying of thirst.
I see a child
chasing droplets of water
in a storm of dust
and black flies.

I see brown bones
dangling haphazardly.
I see a marionette
at the end of
invisible wires
-an impossible tangle.

Someone said,
'…magic persists without us…'.*

Is there magic in this world?
Magic cyclones?
An Emerald City?
I see a wicked land.
I see desolate people
watering poppies
in Spring.