New Safeguards for Warplanes
this one is too easy, with the irony
almost a doublethink kind of thingthe accidental strafing of a school by an F-16
cut & paste: Little Egg Harbor Township, NJ
for somewhere East of Jerusalem
or South of our Southern borderthe definition stands: war is over there
like an arrow that points
only in one directionfar enough away
that the victims are namelesswe've lost the language for our own misfortunes
b/c we won't talk about theirs
when framing the terror of 27 20mm rounds ripping
indiscriminately through the chill evening air
or speaking of warplanes and the safety of civilian populations
Aaron Couch is the Poetry Editor for Xconnect magazine (http://www.xconnect.org).