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Poetry

Otten, Charlotte F.

Charlotte F. Often Two Sons Dead 2 Samuel 21 Her face crisscrossed by telephone wires Two sons dead for Saul'-; blood-guilt, Or was it Nam that crucified them? Green-bellied, flowers burning at...

...Their flesh is barley broken in the dark...
...Then David hears (or Nixon) and gathers bones The color of the rain in barley harvest...
...Green-bellied, flowers burning at her feet...
...She spreads herself by day and night upon a rock, And sings to keep the birds and rats away...

Vol. 116 • April 1989 • No. 8

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