Poets Against War continues the tradition of socially engaged poetry by creating venues for poetry as a voice against war, tyranny and oppression.

Amy Solomon-Minarchi

25 years old

Amy Solomon-Minarchi is a graduate of Rutgers University, Douglass College. She writes and cares for her veteran in Olympia, Washington.

My Husband Is a Sniper

And the fat kid likes cake.
We live in the sewer stewing over
   melted flesh and our right
to pursue death.

My husband is a sniper
  and he waits in the trees
for me to come home
before he fires.

Something went wrong in the desert
and he doesn’t know
whether he pulled the trigger
   or not.

   And all the men
slip into their corners
to be alive in nightmares
and not remember.

Pike felt blood on his hands
in the right light.

  ©2010, Poets Against War, all rights reserved.      Contact PAW       Site Map