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Jeffrey Calhoun
Spreading dust
In a Texas corporate boardroom, a monocle slips,
cracks into shards in chorus with Mother Earth.
It may have begun with Cortes and gold,
but now escalates with the green of easy cash and deficit spending,
the red of blood in Iraq when shrapnel streaks and body-bombs blow,
the black oil that bubbles up from under owned and blasted ground.
Mother cries:
The man with moneybag
eyes betrayed her
Skyscrapers and concrete might well
be locusts. They signal a new flood
or perhaps the cold that shrivels
when mushrooms run amok.
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| Jeffrey
Calhoun: I am a Biology major at The University of Dayton in
Dayton, Ohio. I have been an avid reader of literature for the
vast majority of my life. I am intrigued with the ability of
well-crafted poetry to evoke emotion and provoke thinking. Thus
far, I have been published in orpHeus,
University of Dayton's biannual literary magazine, Down in the Dirt, and the Loch Raven Review.
email: Jeffrey
Calhoun |
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