475. Counterstroke

August 24, 2014
by Paul Nelson

As with all 2014 August Poetry Postcard Fest poems, this one uses Levertov again as the source of its epigraph and the poem continues the theme of that quote and it weaves through familiar territory, including the time spent in the community garden (p-patch), the ongoing urge for peace and the notion of how we worship soldiers in this country, at the expense of peace and prosperity.

475. Counterstroke

475. Counterstroke

1 Comment

  1. Amand Dowd

    oooooh, I like that one. It came out whole Paul.

    Reply

Submit a Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

You May Also Like …

Voluntary Hallucinations

Voluntary Hallucinations

I'm delighted to have a postcard poem in the new anthology I Sing the Salmon Home. It's a book of poems by Washington...

read more