If a body is what you want
then here is bone and gristle and flesh.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: Brian Turner, imagery, unsettling, war
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The 5:32 0
She said, If tomorrow my world were torn in two,
Blacked out, dissolved, I think I would remember
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: love poetry, Phyllis McGinley, social commentary, suburban