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Yemen Girl young girl with a thousand names stands in the doorways of Yemen long skirt billows in the breeze young girl stands in the jaws of war and hunger no rain but bombs fall from the sky she clutches her headscarf confronts the camera level-eyed one eye steeled in the pugnacity of life the other convulsed in horror the roofs fall on the uncles the walls crash onto cribs the ground erupts in blisters under the shrapnel sky the young girl is our grandmothers hands past and future clasped together in a star-lit continuum a long procession of endurance loss and love  Argos MacCallum has published two chapbooks of poetry-- She Loved Gravity and Would Fall Down Exquisitely Anywhere (Synergetic Press, 1987), and Sleeping Woman Mountain (Kelsay Books, 2022). His poems have appeared in Malpais Review, :Lummox Anthology, and PoetryXHunger. He lives in Santa Fe, NM.
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10/6/2022 02:10:47 pm
Argos, you place your poem in Yemen, war torn, 'hunger,' so linked to war zones. And ends on a possible up note or noting the strength it takes to survive a long war. You directly link "war and hunger' in line 2, stanza 2. Leave a Reply. |
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