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Weird Death

a lament upon the futility of war

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* After seeing 1,000 photos of the Iraq War dead

Weird death
Captured the breath
Stopped the mechanism
Left invisible its
Stark ghost

The magnolia and its antique flowers
The gliding wing and faint sounds
Of egrets and herons
And all seems lost
With the dead and the war
In coffins, lives

Lives
With blood and flowers
With all the factions of this god and that god and war
With poverty’s solemn tolling sounds
For all the souls lost
Ringing in the trees of the herons

The trees of the herons
Breathing in, I think of all the lives
Breathing out, I think of all the loss
On the graves, all the flowers
And in the granite cemeteries of quietude, no sounds
Meditate on endless nothing and war

Endless war
Notice silent in the gray moss of trees, herons
In clusters high above, still, no sounds
Solemn memories of those lives
And like the agave and its flower
Perishes and is lost

Lost
In the chaos of war
With narcotic flowers
And ravens now and the herons
In the here, with these dead and no lives
With churning sounds

Sounds
Of mourning and loss
And the grinding of lives
What is war?
The herons?
The indifferent magnolia and its antique flowers?

In the now, with ten thousands dead and the war
Silent herons
Words, flowers

Weird death
Captured the breath
Stopped the mechanism
Left invisible its
Stark ghost



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