OUTSIDE QUANG TRI CITY, 1968
I’m watching out the window the cat stalk
the robin pulling up worms don’t say a
word so I must be complicit when
you fire into the dark trees when you
fire round after round into the dark trees
without knowing who hides there until we stop
—from Rattle #80, Summer 2023
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Bruce Weigl: “If I could choose one poem of mine that illustrates the way the war never truly leaves you, it would be this one. I wrote it to show that to the reader, that’s all.”
