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Absolutely Revolting
Poems

The Young Men

‘The Young Men’, a poem by Fay Zwicky

by Fay Zwicky •
June-July 2004, no. 262

Made ghosts in all their country’s wars
they come, the young men in my dreams
with shattered skulls, intestines trailing
in the sand, the mud, the stuff the TV doesn’t
show unless it’s Africa. Or someplace else where
colour doesn’t count, democracy a word
 they carted like a talisman, a passport
to the candles, bells of sainthood.

 


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