This one I wrote during the runup to the war in Iraq. It is a prayer in form and function. I sent it to the President, who is, apparently and oddly resistant to prayer. Of course, we know that poetry makes no difference in the modern fascist state.
Eden’s Shore
Let us build paradise where paradise began,
Between [...]

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Here is a poem from June 2004 (according to my note) about war as a function of human spirit, or rather, the defeat of human spirit.
Service
There is a mighty angel
Who always smiles at war
Who sees the quickening
Cycles of ashes and dust
And mounding rubbles of towns and bones
As fertile ground for his art.
He is loved among [...]

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