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By Eva Rinaldi from Sydney Australia [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons
By John Kaufman
If war can be shed, if we can agree
to remove the uniform
for a day or an hour or even
a minute then whatever we said
we heroically wore unravels
as when one pulls a loose thread.
Because war is a shirt
stitched tight like a chain,
each building upon the other one’s pain,
someone must risk
letting go of the link, just one
anywhere, anyone
can, barehanded, begin.
Categories: Poetry