If ‘namvets were ancient shamans/now would be the moment/we’d choose/to give you shelter/from the coming storm
Author: Doug Rawlings
Rawlings is a Vietnam veteran and the author of four collections of poems: Orion Rising, A G.I. Portrait, In the Shadow of the Annamese Mountains, and A Baker's Dozen (children's poems). He is a founding member and former poet laureate of Veterans For Peace.
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Fall 2023 Editorial: The Trail Ellsberg Blazed
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‘We Are the Scorpion in Your Jackboot’
Corporate America: We will not buy your bloody parades anymore; we refuse your worthless praise; we spit on your war memorials.
Ballad of the Village Vigilers
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From Remorse to Renewal
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Editorial: Is Political Art a Contradiction?
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Mirrors
I have decided (I think) that my mind has become a series of walk-in closets. You know, the kind with a full length mirror on...
Nature Bats Last
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