Breakages
(for D-Day)
Monuments
Stand
This is the day
They reach
And many of us
Reach with them
Which was
A multinational effort
You know
North Americans
Europeans
Against their own
Our own
A sibling conflict as
Such conflicts are
Each
And every
Tragic time
And can you imagine
The ranks included
Homosexuals
Bisexuals
How many immigrants
And refugees
Those whose English
Or a native language
Wasn’t easy
Even the homeless
Even the criminal
Maybe the left-handed
Too
Also the atheist
Agnostic
Muslim
Hindu
Shinto
All other codes
With those
Who had nothing official
To adhere to
The young
The beautiful
The misformed
Too
All those who hearts
Were broken
On the beaches
And what happened to their bodies
And their minds
And maybe touched
Their patriotism
Though the
Preponderance
Moved forward
I’m sorry
You want
To think
Of everyone
Involved
Of all the same
The same
But what we know
For sure
Is all were one
Were one
That day
And in the days
Succeeding
As the world was taken
Back into its own
And
By the end
Of the year
The human race
Could after years
More freely
Run its own
C L Couch
“I’d never seen so many dead men”
voice of a D-Day veteran
Photo by David Hohl on Unsplash
Scrap Book
(6 June)
Cotton, leather, metal, glass
Plastic would come after
The things of Earth are drawn out and used up
As if the jealous ground would never notice
But this is the way of war
It doesn’t care about the ground
That will receive us
Before, during, and after
Creation cracks
Under the weight of it
And the blackened sky
Over boiling water
Earth will receive it all
And close it up
And maybe set to heal
We are done
The Earth is done
Afterward, there will be
Some kind of peace
Grandfathers come home
Grandmothers come home
To be black-and-white remembered
C L Couch
Unknown or not provided – U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16455209
The beachhead is secure, but the price was high. A Coast Guard Combat Photographer came upon this monument to a dead American soldier somewhere on the shell-blasted shore of Normandy.
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