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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>Powerful. Let's remember this for Memorial Day or
Veterans Day.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>Thank you, Peg.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>Martha</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, March 19, 2018 7:46 AM</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Worship] For Veterans Day: A Black Veteran at the Vietnam
Veterans Wall in DC</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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hiding inside the black granite.
I said I wouldn’t,
dammit: No tears.
I’m stone. I’m flesh.
My clouded reflection eyes me
like a bird of prey, the profile of night
slanted against morning. I turn
this way—the stone lets me go.
I turn that way—I’m inside
the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
again, depending on the light
to make a difference.
I go down the 58,022 names,
half-expecting to find
my own in letters like smoke.
I touch the name Andrew Johnson;
I see the booby trap’s white flash.
Names shimmer on a woman’s blouse
but when she walks away
the names stay on the wall.
Brushstrokes flash, a red bird’s
wings cutting across my stare.
The sky. A plane in the sky.
A white vet’s image floats
closer to me, then his pale eyes
look through mine. I’m a window.
He’s lost his right arm
inside the stone. In the black mirror
a woman’s trying to erase names:
No, she’s brushing a boy’s hair.
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