Tidal Basin Review, Summer 2010

Page 7

PLAINSONG

Lou Amyx

All our fields we plant with bone. Our sons rise and fight and fall and we cover them. All our daughter‘s tears are stones. Their wombs weep and bleed. Poisoned by enemy seed. All war yearns for its own end. Scarred lands wait to bloom again, to feed our children rather than be fed by them.

AMYX âˆŤ 7


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