Életképek

(Pictures of Life)

 

~ Porte D'entrée ~

 

 

Ian Axel Anderson

 

Suvojit Banerjee

 

John J. Dunphy

 

Francis A. Durivage

 

Bret Harte

 

Kristina Jacobs

 

Mór Jókai

 

Penn Kemp

 

Jean Lorrain

 

Karen Maric

 

Michael Pendragon

 

Tom Sheehan

 

Sheikha A.

 

Riley Tolbert

 

Patricia Worth

 

♠ ♥ ♣ ♦

 

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 a map

and the names

Saipan, Iwo Jima, Kwajalein,

the war.

 

 

 

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