Poetry

Keep Something to Eat

Jeffrey H. MacLachlan


The 'Nam Issue 12

 

 

ben suc     ben suc    

 

              ben suc

 

pronounced bazook

 

            dear mom

 

finest way to see vietnam

 

   float       above    bombs

 

explode    blue halos

 

      lush      gas stoves

 

   greens and soil           wok toss

 

       nam out     here

 

carved    out   by   artillery

 

remember        mom

 
     whatever brass         wine pairs

 

    killed a   cyclist  wearing black   blouse


vc label vc label vc label

 

         wait maybe the blouse         lavender

 

no black if he's black shoot shoot shoot

 

     until conical hat    runny egg

  merlot bottle       froths  

         aged blood      uncorked neck

 

       cooking       villages

About the Author

Jeffrey H. MacLachlan also has recent poems in The Penn Review, The Greensboro Review, and the New York Quarterly, among others. He is a Senior Lecturer of Literature at Georgia College and State University.

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