Arlington Midwest at Kent State, May 4, 2006
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"Terry Lodge tjlodge50@PROTECTED [Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition]" <peacelist@PROTECTED>
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Date:
May 4th 2021
Arlington Midwest at Kent State, May 4, 2006
Looking down from the black marble memorial
Grave reminder
Of a nonfiction nightmare
In an Ohio theater of war
I'm halfway between Blanket Hill and the
Valley of Death of May 4, 1970
My observation post above a field
Today dressed up as thousands of war crimes.
The semi-shade of the black oak branches
And their celadon new leaves
Wreaths the distant, orderly rows
Of white petals
Fallen from the Tree of Life.
Tears water this chiaroscuro of whitewash, in a flood
Choreographed by Rumsfeld.
These petals will produce no fruit
Nor beauty or poetry
Their leaves are pages from the guest registers
I'm halfway between Blanket Hill and the
Valley of Death of May 4, 1970
My observation post above a field
Today dressed up as thousands of war crimes.
The semi-shade of the black oak branches
And their celadon new leaves
Wreaths the distant, orderly rows
Of white petals
Fallen from the Tree of Life.
Tears water this chiaroscuro of whitewash, in a flood
That roils toward the places where crimes against humanity are plotted.
From a distance, it's a palette worthy of Manet,Choreographed by Rumsfeld.
These petals will produce no fruit
Nor beauty or poetry
Their leaves are pages from the guest registers
Of three thousand funeral homes.
Silently we listen
For some hopeful spring noise
That their blood might have nurtured,
Answered by silence.
Silently we listen
For some hopeful spring noise
That their blood might have nurtured,
Answered by silence.
- Terry Lodge, May 4, 2006
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