Not a poem…

by Frank Paynter on August 21, 2007

This fierceness may deepen to understanding, to compassion;
but more easily hardens into a coldness
cloaked with a kind of sentimentality,
a false nostalgia. They become vulnerable
to propaganda. To patriotism.

They are “broken”.
This brokenness is intended…

Sharon Brogan writes at Watermark.

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