thank you so much for your poem, Joelle
Reinhard
Let me just correct a couple of lines that suffered in the e-mail
transmission:
Thanks, Joelle
I'm breathing the smoke
of gunshots, mortars, missiles,
and oil wells burning.
I'm stirring in the night,
hearing children crying
and mothers keening.
The soft spring breeze
has the grit of desert sandstorm.
The night sky is torn by explosives,
cut by the arc of a missile.
There's no place far enough
to put my heart at ease.
Can I buy another chance?
I want to refuse to take sides.
I want to imagine a world
more spacious and more intimate.
I want the courage to buy
homes and meals and schoolbooks
instead of guns and tanks
.
I want to be peace, wild and fierce and sweet.
April, 2003
Joelle Lyons Everett
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