NEWSPAPER PHOTOS OF THE BROKEN WORLD
A poem by Donna Munro
Newspaper Photos of the Broken World*
Color photographs of the broken world in smoke and
flames
blue bus ripped apart, colorful bodies, flowers in a
wasteland
red car crushed by concrete slabs, bright yellow
flames
against black smoke
rescuers, healers, horrified maddened mourning and
curious gather
gather, gather
roses at a wedding
a pond’s green algae interrupted by golden eyes
Beauty is a separate animal
she is war as well as love
she is broken as well as whole
he leans against a shattered wall
and weeps at the beauty of the dead child
Here is hope alive and well
in a blue boat drifting away
from the littered shore, flames like amazed flowers
How can it be that I am?
How can it be that I’m drifting
into the current and where does it go
and where does it go
and where at last does it go?
Fall 2007 Poetry
.ETCETERA by Ron Miraflores
Featured Poet: Judson Hamilton
Editor’s Choice: Michael Ogletree
TRUTH IN ADVERTISING by Patricia
Fillingham
PAMONA HILLS by Daniel Wilcox
YOU AND LANGSTON HUGHES by Rosemary
Pennington
QUIET ASYLUM by Candy Tothill
THE TRAVELER AWAKES. HER TRAIN AWAKES
by Nick Courtright
DYING ALONE by Helen Peterson
THE LIE by Daniel S. Irwin
NEWSPAPER PHOTOS OF THE BROKEN WORLD by Donna Munro
OCCUPIED TILL I DIE by J. Alan Nelson
BECAUSE LOVE IS LIKE THE SHORTEST DAY by
Dave Migman
YOUR EYES ARE by Jennifer Bowles
OF BEAUTIFUL SOULS by David McLean
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