Grave Lines

Fellow Veteran For Peace and friend Larry Kershner has published a collection of poety, Grave Lines.  Larry's poems explore his Vietnam combat experience and the understanding that experience has contributed to his awareness of the world and its people in the many years since Vietnam.  Larry describes his work as "in your face" and it is, often uncomfortably so.  The discomfort is testament to the truth in Larry's work. 

A sample:

When happiness is a warm gun on the silk road to canto

1.      .    When Richard Nixon announced
   he couldn’t stand pat
   we hoped that he meant
   his wife
   but we knew that the meant the war
   then shapeshifting he came on the tv and
   confirmed that he had lied to us all
   there was no secret plan for peace
   only burglars in the Watergate
   dreaming fascist dreams.
   
   
   2.     When the Buddha stood
   in the tall grass before me
   with his rifle on full automatic
   his bullets missed me
   as mine were nothing to him.
   
   
    3.     When the international community called for
   a forty-eight hour suspension of bombing
   while the thirty-two children of Qana are
   raised form the dead in he town where once
   Jesus turned water into wine.
   
   

Copies are $10, available directly from Larry.  Email him at Larry@peacepoet.me.