Regiment
First the morning sun
comes to this
yellow summer that swells
into blue gray fog
to burn it away,
unveils a long
Southern field
who softly sleeps
who softly sleeps
at last under a canopy of small wings
filled with unusual strength
and candor. Abandoned
filled with unusual strength
and candor. Abandoned
a farm stands dejected
with stones and crooked weeds
beside the obvious. Ghost
soldiers come out with
old silence
to ease the scenes from
memories now encased in crowns
of milkweed and Queen Anne’s lace
and climbing ivy. There we find a pond
ringed by solitude, cool
glazed with watered stones
edged with songbirds singing
in the willows
whom bullets crossed by
in their whizzing
with live soldiers running,
shouting, laying low,
crawling hard across
this old road
to pray one last time
alive.
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