Poems: D-Day celebration, Angela's ashes, and (shudder) . . . .Three sequences

Dutch iris - Couchwood, 2014 - PL

 

NO ENEMY FIRE THIS TIME

 

World War

Two vet repeats

his parachute landing

of 70 years ago, sans
ammo.
~~
70 YEARS BETWEEN

The same
pilots who dropped
World War II paratroopers
took control again for D-Day's
reprise.
[PL - 6.9.2014]
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FROM FRANK McCourt's book, 'TIS
(found poems)

bringing her own chill
into that of December's--
his Irish mother

dipping our fingers
into the New Jersey urn--
Angela's ashes
(p.366)

breeze eddying
her white dust around the gray
of the cousins' bones
(Ibid)
[PL - 6.6. 2000]
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~~

TERMITES

high school basketball
court only four years old
crumbling

entrees:
line insulation, caskets
utility poles

historic cannon
t
   o
     p
        p
           l
              i
                 n
                     g
from its wooden stand

dining
on Spillane and Socrates
alike

[PL - from R. Cawthon, Phila (PA) Inquirer, 6. 18. 1999]