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

A.D. Wiegert

24 years old

In 2008, A.D. Wiegert graduated from Iowa State University with a B.A. in English.  His poetry has appeared in or will appear in The Tulane Review, The South Carolina Review, The Writers Block, phati’tude, Paper Darts, and The Broken Plate.

Hang It Up

Hang It Up

from the ladder, Christmas
Lights strung over gutters

just in time for Autumn dusk
the paper lies folded, rubber

band enforced in the midst
of a sprinkler sprout

Hang it up
Mrs. Dry Cleaner

they’ve called you for thirty years
to deliver their pants suits

and ties, plastic crinkling
the wool under your eyes

a dog’s bark upon the porch,
across the purple Heartland

rifle’s dismantled, cleaned
and resting over the mantel

A handful of shells held
in a cigar box, a font

captured from the front,
Hang up the dish towel

Mrs. Holiday, your husband’s
outside and may be all day

the dry cleaning’s here
and your boy has built a fire

Chewing a cigar, polishing
old boots and shaving his scar.  

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