Anthracite

Made memories High stakes Perception games Battlefield Of reality What’s real Marred ground Scarred sky 5 armies dug in All vying to win Could they All exist At the same time Dead memories Revive and persist Remember when That trench was made Foxholes bombed out Flags being waved Ripped uniforms Broken swords And 5 generalsContinue reading “Anthracite”

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This Battlefield

Is littered with necklaces Symbols Shared shirts And sweet scents Scattered with papers Upon which are words Wonderfully verse To illicit emotion Yellowing forever Among the dirt And bodies And outposts They pick up In wind and fly Into barbed wire To be eviscerated There are odd weapons Rapiers of princes Hellish spears Knight’s broadswordsContinue reading “This Battlefield”

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