Dramatis Personae -- Townspeople tell the story of Sonya and Alfonso -- Gunshot -- As Soldiers March, Alfonso Covers the Boy's Face with a Newspaper -- Alfonso, in Snow -- Deafness, an Insurgency, Begins -- Alfonso Stands Answerable -- That Map of Bone and Opened Valves -- Townspeople Circle the Boy's Body -- Of Weddings before the War -- Still Newlyweds -- Soldiers Aim at Us -- Checkpoints -- Before the War, We Made a Child -- As Soldiers Choke the Stairwell -- 4 a.m. Bombardment -- Arrival -- Lullaby -- Question -- While the Child Sleeps, Sonya Undresses -- Cigarette -- Dog Sniffs -- What We Cannot Hear -- Central Square -- Widower -- For His Wife -- I, This Body -- Her Dresses -- Elegy -- Above Blue Tin Roofs, Deafness -- City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck -- In the Bright Sleeve of the Sky -- To Live -- Townspeople Watch Them Take Alfonso -- Away -- Eulogy -- Question -- Such Is the Story Made of Stubbornness and a Little Air -- Townspeople tell the story of Momma Galya -- Townspeople Speak of Galya on Her Green Bicycle -- When Momma Galya First Protested -- Bundle of Laundry -- What Are Days -- Galya Whispers, as Anushka Nuzzles -- Galya's Puppeteers -- In Bombardment, Galya -- Little Bundles -- Galya's Toast -- Theater Nights -- And While Puppeteers Are Arrested -- Soldiers Don't Like Looking Foolish -- Search Patrols -- Lullaby -- Firing Squad -- Question -- Yet, I Am -- Trial -- Pursued by the Men of Vasenka -- Anonymous -- And Yet, on Some Nights.
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