Time for Poetics in the dVerse Poets Pub. Dora asks us to consider "margins" ~ compose a poem that reflects our thoughts. My book club read Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" several months ago ~ a collection of short stories about the Vietnam War that certainly made an impact on all of us.
Crossing Over
there is no chalk line in the jungle
just green that bleeds into green
boundaries sketched by the crack of rifle fire
shouts muffled by wet, heavy air
they said the Tet Offensive was a dividing line
between who they were and who they became
kids with baseball gloves back home
men who had to kill to breathe
margins, boundaries
men brave enough to cross over