“Reunión en el Pentágono I-V” by Oswaldo Guayasamín
small caliber words
war comes in rude packages
bomblets of sound bites
delivered by tinhorn tongues
exploding in tinhorn ears
Threat
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“Red Dawn from Mt Washington” by Terry Noack
morning burns
in its fiery birth
to an innocent sky
clouds ablaze
give the day
deathly signal
red warning of
atavist madness
in march upon
menacing
places of power
aiming destruction
by pointing pale
terrible bones of
a nuclear finger
at westernmost
civilization
“Bird Song”
Painting by Lynne Taetzsch
From artbylt.com
passerine Paris
sang from her sycamore roost
while hovered the hawk
Blue Crab
Photo from typesofeverything.com
some fool wrecked all the roads ahead
- so forward motion’s dead to me
and backward is no real man’s choice
- so sideways seems my destiny
I’ll warn you once don’t ever doubt
- my merciless identity
steer clear my claws or rue to dare
- and pay the price for testing me
Map of Korea
Illustration from news.bbc.co.uk
I remember the DMZ
cinching the ideological
waist of an ancient
peninsular orient
a bifurcate culture
scarred deeply by
war with itself
blood on blood
born of armistice
four clicks of memory
crossed by patrols
of imported mistrust
this precarious swath
holds its breath
against fear of
exhaling new fire
and the new fire
pent up so long
has developed
a nuclear heat
I remember it
through my binoculars
watching the other side
watching me back
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