THE WALL
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“THE WALL” is published in Revue LISA/LISA e-journal with the kind permission of Doug Rawlings.
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1THE WALL
2Descending into this declivity
3dug into our nation’s capital
4by the cloven hoof
5of yet another one of our country’s
6tropical wars
7
8Slipping past the names of those
9whose wounds
10refuse to heal
11
12Slipping past the panel where
13my name would have been
14could have been
15perhaps should have been
16
17Down to The Wall’s greatest depth
18where the beginning meets the end
19I kneel
20
21Staring through my own reflection
22beyond the names of those
23who died so young
24
25Knowing now that The Wall
26has finally found me –-
2758,000
28thousand-yard stares
29have fixed on me
30as if I were their Pole Star
31as if I could guide their mute testimony
32back into the world
33as if I could connect all those dots
34in the nighttime sky—
35
36As if I
37could tell them
38the reason why
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Doug Rawlings, « THE WALL », Revue LISA/LISA e-journal [En ligne], Anthologie vivante sur les Mémoires de guerre, mis en ligne le 18 juin 2020, consulté le 26 avril 2025. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/lisa/12333 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/lisa.12333
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