FLEEING TO CANADA
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Gene Fehler
Gene Fehler teaches poetry writing through South Carolina's Artist-in-Education program. He especially enjoys reading and writing poems of shared experience. Recent publications include RATTLE, BELLOWING ARK, THE NEBRASKA REVIEW, and ELYSIAN FIELDS QUARTERLY.By Gene Fehler
Published on 11/23/2005
Hacking them into
scared silence,
the draft chased them
like some beheaded fowl
bleeding its final seconds
in barnyard sawdust
scared silence,
the draft chased them
like some beheaded fowl
bleeding its final seconds
in barnyard sawdust
Hacking them into
scared silence,
the draft chased them
like some beheaded fowl
bleeding its final seconds
in barnyard sawdust
while the clarity
of who they once were
darkened
inside the shadow
of those
they could never become.
Copyright © Gene Fehler, 2005. All Rights Reserved.
scared silence,
the draft chased them
like some beheaded fowl
bleeding its final seconds
in barnyard sawdust
while the clarity
of who they once were
darkened
inside the shadow
of those
they could never become.
Copyright © Gene Fehler, 2005. All Rights Reserved.