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

Jeffery Bahr

53 years old
Longmont, CO

Antebellum

This pall upon the air, this taste of metal. Both crows
on the empty feeder swivel their necks among
an embarrassment of resting places. The sky
blue and unobtainable, the mountains cold to the touch.
A girl in a nightgown shoos one away and stares down
the other. And the frozen grass weaves a message
on the bottom of her feet. As the sun hammers
the horizon, exhausts itself and by its absence condones
the cold. The lone crow and the girl, still. The way
that cancer doesn’t kill, it just replaces.

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