The Gallic Wars.(Poem)

Prairie Schooner | December 22, 2002| | Copyright
The Gallic Wars 
 
   Participles gleam, like dull swords sunk 
   in clabbered mud. The clock flinches toward noon. 
   Caesar in his spattered skirt wars with swank 
   Caesar, cleanly reminiscing in his seaside home, 
 
   like a professor I would meet next fall at school. 
   Chains on tires like gladiatorial gear 
   ching in the slush of winter. We're the Gauls. 
   Or are we the Romans? Hueys drone and batter 
 
   Asian jungles where boys a year or two older 
   are sent if their numbers are low. But no one speaks 
   of fate or power or helplessness, the ominous folder 
   of ...

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