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Dog Fight

Jean Wiggins

Like an airplane lumbering down the runway
but failing to take off,
she is failing already in life

after so-soon a start. She trembles
like a blade of grass
blown by tender winds,

and that’s what we see--
that and the hamlet
after the shelling, disgusting

as it used to be beautiful,
Seeing her now is like seeing
a skinned rabbit hanging

in a peasant’s hut.
Sometimes I think we are apples
past ripeness, a rotten curse

to the benevolence of earth.
Other times I think we may be
angels, the wax on our wings

melted by too much light.
I wonder why history has a mouth
but not a nose, why ecstasy

sits in a dark corner, how a child
can be torn open like a split tree,
why the bitches of war remain unleashed.



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