Compromised

~ Kenneth P. Gurney

Among the rocky patches
unexploded cluster bomblets
and landmines
fracture and fragment
playful children
and leave ribbons
of twisted carnage
years after the combatants
ceased hostilities
and embraced in peace.

copyright © 2020 Kenneth P. Gurney

Published by Kenneth P. Gurney

I am an Albuquerque, NM, USA poet.

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