elegy for a soldier

Elegy for a Soldier
June Jordan, 1936-2002
by Marilyn Hacker
I.
The city where I knew you was swift.
A lover cabbed to Brooklyn
(broke, but so what) after the night shift
in a Second Avenue
diner. The lover was a Quaker,
a poet, an anti-war
activist. Was blonde, was twenty-four.
Wet snow fell on the access
road to the Manhattan Bridge. I was
neither lover, slept uptown.
But [...]

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better late than never?

Brother I’m Dying Response
Well since my response to the book is ridiculously late, I decided to take the Elmaz challenge and do an in depth look at craft over a chapter. My response will be directed at pulling apart the craft elements of One Father Happy, One Father Sad since this is a chapter [...]

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