---

 

This writing was accepted for publication in the 108 page perfect-bound ISSN#/ ISBN# issue/book “Choices” cc&d, v313 (the September 2021 issue) Order the 6"x9" paperback book:

Order this writing in the book The World Outside the cc&d Sep.-Dec. 2021 magazine issues collection book		get the 424 page Sep.-Dec. 2021 cc&d magazine 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback book:

I Who Lost a Brother from Conneaut, Ohio

Tom Sheehan

I who lost a brother and nearly lost another
remember the headlines, newsreels, songs
of bond-selling, gas-griping, and movies too
true to hate. The whole Earth bent inwards,
imploding bombs, bullets, blood, shrieking
some terrible bird cry in my ears only sleep
could lose.
Near sleep I could only remember the nifty
bellbottom blues he wore in the picture my
mother cleaned and cleaned and cleaned on
the altar of her bureau as if he were the Christ
or the Buddha, but he was out there in the sun
and the sand and the rain of shells and sounds
I came to know years later moving up from
Pusan. I never really knew about him until he
came home and I saw his sea bag decorated
with his wife’s picture, and maps with names
like Saipan, Iwo Jima, Leyte, Okinawa, the war.

Copyright of written pieces remain with the author, who has allowed it to be shown through Scars Publications and Design.Web site © Scars Publications and Design. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission from the author.

Problems with this page? Then deal with it...