Well I have and in fact more than one and I'll tell you this too I wrote one against Algeria that nightmare and another against Korea and another against the one I was in and I don't remember how many against the three when I was a boy Abyssinia Spain and Harlan County and not one breath was restored to one shattered throat mans womans or childs not one not one but death went on and on never looking aside except now and then like a child with a furtive half-smile to make sure I was noticing. Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY by ALEXANDER POPE TIMES GO BY TURNS by ROBERT SOUTHWELL IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: PROEM by ALFRED TENNYSON MY WIFE'S COUSIN, SELECTION by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN THE TOMBS OF THE KINGS by MATHILDE BLIND THE INDIAN by ARTHUR STANLEY BOURINOT |