image caption: LeeAnn Warren (L) comforts her friend Ashleigh Pfister, as they look at the medals her husband, Army Spc. Jacob Pfister, was awarded during funeral services outside St. Vincent de Paul Church in North Evans, New York, on April 29, 2005…Pfister died April 19 when a suicide car bomber hit their squadron near Baghdad <snip> REUTERS/Gary Wiepert
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On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam
by Hayden Carruth
Well I have and in fact
more than one and I’ll
tell you this too
I wrote one against
Algeria that nightmare
and another against
Korea and another
against the one
I was in
and I don’t remember
how many against
the three
when I was a boy
Abyssinia Spain and
Harlan County
and not one
breath was restored
to one
shattered throat
mans womans or childs
not one not
one
but death went on and on
never looking aside
except now and then
with a furtive half-smile
to make sure I was noticing.
