Garth Dutton

The Veteran – A Poem

Here is another poem from my recently released book “The Apricot Tree”

The Veteran (For Neville McLoughlin)
© Garth Dutton 2008

The Vietnam veteran recalled
flying over the Delta
Above, a night sky
with moon and stars and scattered clouds.
Below, ten thousand holes
where bombs had fallen.
Craters
water filled
reflecting
a mirror image
of moon and stars and scattered clouds,
from beneath a thin dark frame
of untouched land.
A surreal nightmare
from some artist’s mind,
but was it Escher or Dali?

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