washed ashore

the emergency
room
is buzzing.
bells ring,
machines whirring.
patients
in disarray.
stretched out
like
starfish
against the white
sheets.
the injured
have washed ashore here.
the boys
and girl
in blue and sea foam
green, barely out of school
attend
to their misery as
best they can.
the cloaked white
doctors
are on their way.