Poets Against War continues the tradition of socially engaged poetry by creating venues for poetry as a voice against war, tyranny and oppression.
Heather Spears
74 years old
Canadian writer/artist living in Denmark. 13 collections. Won Governor-Generals Award for Poetry and 3 Lowther Memorial Awards. Read antiwar poems at Library of Congress 1987. www.heatherspears.com
Obscurant
Obscurant
White phosphorous like a net in the night sky cast with exquisite precision great dolorous spines, outlines of a skirt a mile wide, a dome, an embrace soft extensions of descending woolly light choreographed, unhurried
Beautiful you have to say it you are not even at the border like the journalist telling about it or the other one who is filming it as it happens LIVE printed across the screen you are far away in Europe they can’t see what will happen either, what is beginning now to happen as the obscurant so meticulously measured begins to touch and touch the ground between the buildings doing what it does best, predicted
A child’s face plane with the pavement like a mosaic pieced, flat the pavement is a house levelled the word is rubble the word is collateral a child’s face flat to the ground gray, inset a perfect fit the earth and bricks and bits of cement pressed around it no blood not even her hair just the entire face moon round part of the picture icon among all the other fragments melted into one surface so tight not even her shoulders
You saw it before you could stop seeing it stop seeing it, you will never stop seeing it just her face eyes closed they have to be, or the sky overhead could no longer bear
