A POEM OF REMEMBRANCE

posted Thursday, 24 April 2008

LONDON

Emergency leave

never ends well

when a mother

is lost

to breast cancer

I, an Army Lieutenant

flying back to

the Sunni Triangle-

a face in the window at

thirty thousand feet-

for the final

six months

of the tour

A layover in London.

The moist weather,

and a soft couch

in the dim hotel lobby

Queen's Gate Garden

Hyde Park

I, a lone American.

Emotions ornate

as the gates

I peer through

at Buckingham Palace

in the rain,

seeing nothing.

1. Aprille left...

Tuesday, 29 April 2008 6:25 pm

Maybe you should come run the Race for the Cure in Washington, DC, June 7. I'm running it!

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