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

Diane Spodarek

Diane Spodarek is a New York writer and performer who divides her time between New Zealand and New York.

In the no hills of Detroit (for Randy)

Somewhere in the no hills
of Detroit
in a military burial
from a war he never saw
lies the father
of a dead son

Under the February snow
the surface crackles
from the rain
keeping out
tracks of loved ones
who dare to stay home
and weep
with a six pack

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