Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Cavatina: A time or two

A time or two, no more, of Vietnam

did father speak.

In my third grade he spoke it once all night,

though felt a week

to hear the grief, the boiling in his heart

in words so meek.

No braggart he, no tallied counts of death--

A humble man who scarce could lift his breath.

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