Bad
Penny
The pain
from the last time
finally subsided.
The day it's forgotten, trouble
returns.
(previously published in The Brink at Logan Pond by
Denis Garrison, Lulu Press, 2005)
Casualties of War
Mindful
of the daily
details of business,
I keep busy. I concentrate,
now and
always,
on the present and its concerns.
The war? My friends? They're dead.
Tonight, I'll dream
of them.
(previously published in The Brink at Logan Pond by
Denis Garrison, Lulu Press, 2005)
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