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Carol Jennings

58 years old
Washington, DC

I am an attorney at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, DC.  My poems have been published in The New York Quarterly, Potomac Review, Amelia, and Canadian Woman Studies.


New Year's Eve 2002

A year slips away under cover of dark,
vapor of drizzle and alcohol

a palindrome of a year
ending no better than it began

war is the winter offering
weaponry the new catechism

the language of armed conflict pelts
us like drops of freezing rain

Hellfire missile, Apache gunship,
bomb, target, firepower

the Bethlehem of carols
lies hushed, under siege

we children of the 60s
are sorting through our own deaths

we remember this kind of year,
this drama of dread






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