"Some children went ahead to enter a familiar enclosure,
step the space, and were permitted
occupancy, a quick tap into panic.
Home was a continual theme.
Actually, orphans were useful out of fear
of the touch of their keepers.
The children took care of each other,
wrapping the littlest in wallpaper
ripped from their squat.
Warmth was as short of supply as hope was not."