Vietnam Veterans Memorial – A Poem
From time to time, we get compelling poems sent to us by readers and other veteran artisans. As a service to the arts community, we publish them for your enjoyment. So check this nugget out and think, opine, and ponder……..
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
by Maxwell Corydon Wheat, Jr
DALE R BUIS ANDREW L HENRY ANDREW C YOUNGBEAR
Row by row across black granite
Walled in by Washington earth
The names bleed white
DAVID M WINTER MOSES WILLIAMS ANTHONY J GRASSO
Row by row across black granite
The bearded man in fatigues stands in review
“They go in the order of their dying.”
JACKLIN M BOATWRIGHT NICK KOKALIS CHRISTOPHER J BARBER
Row by row across black granite
The young man on the stepladder points down his camera
“I was nine when my brother went away.”
JOHN H ANDERSON Jr GLENN N NISHIZAWA STEVE GOMEZ
Row by row across black granite
The old man gathers the girl’s shoulders in his arm
“There’s your father’s name.”
GUSTAV A JOHANNSEN ALEJANDRO BIRRI BAGASOL BARRY L
RABINOWITZ
Row by row across black granite
The Illinois mother touches each letter Jerry Lee Danay
“It makes me feel better.”
DONALD T DIONNE MARY T KLINKER RICHARD VANDEGEER
Row by row across black granite
Three nights and three days to say all the names
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Maxwell Corydon Wheat, Jr. ©
Maxwell Corydon Wheat, Jr. , 333 Bedell St., Freeport, NY 11520 – E-mail:[email protected]
“Vietnam Veterans Memorial” appears in Wheat’s paperback, “Iraq and Other Killing Fields, Poetry for Peace,” published in 2004. Wheat is listed in “A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers,” Poets & Writers, Inc.
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