Category: War & Politics
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how we engender unity
“Confront power,” they say “Bring down the power,” they say and you become the power the problem the target “Find another way,” I say 6-21-22
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gun control
High above a grove of cedars You see a flock of crows Circling a tall tree This must be what they call A murder of crows You worry about their victim But walk on and Can no longer see the crows Or worry about their victim 6-9-22
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Listening to the BBC
Glenn was an adolescent cool boy We met In seventh grade band He was smarter than me Played clarinet better than I played trombone In science class, we learned Descartes Tortured animals in the pursuit of knowledge _____ My friend would tell stories of tying cats tails together Lighting them on fire to watch them…
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Gibson’s war
After the war, After bodies were cleared, Mass graves dug up, Photographed and catalogued. After the rubble was pushed aside, and reconstruction begun, You found an abandoned instrument with broken strings. Because this was all you could handle and it did not stink of death, You thought of all the songs it had sung Cradled…
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H.O.R.S.E.
Who decided to spell H.O.R.S.E. that this was the way to see who was the best shot in the neighborhood? Today, I watched young kids play H.O.R.S.E. and doubt they ever rode a horse at summer camp or enjoyed Roy Rogers on TV Shoot to disarm and never to kill dreamed of crying High Oh…
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Kyiv couture
Dressing up in Kevlar and gas masks, Combat boots and fatigues, Window dressing of diplomatic posturing, Advertisements for economic sanctions, Rose red liquid bouquets Arrive by air and land, Candlelit dinner dates of canned rations Are all the rage this Spring 2-23-22
My husband's poetry 