Regular readers will be pleased to know this one’s hot off the presses ~ first new work for this poet in nearly a month.

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Recorded Reading (1:43): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nvyozxown0wspajhogz08/On-Memorial-Day-In-a-Far-Field.mp3?rlkey=uer4qmhmr2mncown2dkodfn9o&dl=0

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On Memorial Day, In a Far Field

Still so young
College aged
He glanced around him at
The mud
Blood
And death

Heard screaming shells
Screaming brothers
Ground becoming fountains
Skies falling

And he thought
About us

Having a barbeque today

Listening to the
Silly stories of our
Loved ones yet again, and

He wished he could be here

And he hoped that something
Anything about this
Absolute moment of hell
Which surrounded him
Inescapably would

Help

To guarantee
For us
Many more such moments
As we were
And he was wishing he were
Living through right then

As he sank helplessly
Past his ears
In the cold
Sucking
Unforgiving
Unforgivable

Mud

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