Decoration Day on A.M. Radio

Lawrence Hall
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Decoration Day on A.M. Radio

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Decoration Day

Mack Hall
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26 May 2014

Decoration Day

Poor graves are decorated well enough:
Spring sunlight falls in halos on these stones
Which wear as battle-honors aged lichens,
And rusted bits of wire from long-dead wreaths

The unknown graves are laurelled best of all:
Forever lost beneath some parking lot
Or accidentally ploughed yet further still
Into the mists, and closest, now, to God

Decoration Day

Did John Kerry place a wreath on himself today?

-- Mack Hall, Viet-Nam Class of 1969-1970