Reading Time: 3 minutesBy Cynthia Ybarra I remember him and when I close my eyes, I can see myself, standing in his room, looking down at him. This
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteIntroduction: “I Listen” is a series of poems about “sleeplessness”. Lupe Mier wrote most of The 15 “I Listen” poems in 1969-70 on site “over there”
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBystanders and their complicity Some men and their women And the children they raise Politicians and legislators and Those who oppress us. They would steal,
Reading Time: 2 minutesI don’t recall the names of the towns that we drove through that afternoon. We stayed clear of the freeways, traveling on two-lane back highways
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA Summer Day at Noontime (July 27, 2022)* I had been sitting in my car thinking, talking to self: old man, you’ve locked yourself outside
Reading Time: 3 minutesBy Terry A. McCarl The most memorable experience of my one-year tour in Vietnam from December 68-November 1969 was on March 4, 1969. A couple
Reading Time: 3 minutesby Donald Dingman I’m only three months into my 72nd year, yet I can honestly say I have personally known a veteran from every U.S.
Reading Time: < 1 minutePissing in pairs before stringing the wire for our night camp perimeter as evening comes nearer, we’re pissing in pairs while passing the grass,
Reading Time: 2 minutesBill Smutko The green glow of the radium number on my watch show it’s three A.M. The rough sheets smell of laundry detergent and bleach.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe’d been close friends once, he and I. But I’d gone off to have the Marines make a man out of me, and he’d stayed
