Richard Nixon's 1972 Christmas
Bombing Campaign as Gospel

...Or the forests scorched & utterly wrecked. Or the full rabbit moon
like a grenade.

What was rising in the east? What is it about this season
& the innocent?

Today on the news, the government has finally agreed to go back
& find what it can � the ordnance
dormant, biding.

What does it mean that it ever happened at all � the planes an annunciation,
& the people desperate to remain
uncounted....

Quan Barry
The Georgia Review
Volume LVI, Number 3
Fall 2002