Emerg Infect DisEIDEmerging Infectious Diseases1080-60401080-6059Centers for Disease Control and Prevention260029508-0694310.3201/eid1406.06943Another DimensionPlague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Besieged CityLuxThomas62008146943943Early germwarfare. The deadhurled this way turn like wheelsin the sky. Look: there goesLarry the Shoemaker, barefoot, over the wall, and Mary Sausage Stuffer, see how she flies, and the Hatter twins, both at once, soar over the parapet, little Tommy’s elbow bent as if in a salute, and his sister, Mathilde, she follows him, arms outstretched, through the air, just as she did on earth.

Suggested citation for this article: Lux T. Plague victims catapulted over walls into besieged city [another dimension]. Emerg Infect Dis [serial on the Internet]. 2008 June [date cited]. Available from http://www.cdc.gov/EID/content/14/6/943.htm

From The Street of Clocks. New Yori: Houghton Mifflin Co.; 2001. Published with permission of the author.

Thomas Lux is author of several books of poetry and recipient of many poetry awards. He holds the Bourne Chair in Poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, where he runs the poetry program.