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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Colin D. Halloran is a US Army veteran who documented his experiences in Afghanistan in his memoir-in-verse Shortly Thereafter, which won the 2012 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. He has also written the poetry collection Icarian Flux, along with many poems, essays, and short stories which have been published internationally in print and online. When not writing, Halloran leads workshops that seek to promote personal and international healing and reconciliation through writing and the arts.
Also by Colin D. Halloran:
Shortly Thereafter
Icarian Flux
Poets Resist
Edited by Logan February
July 9, 2019
Edited by Logan February
July 9, 2019
Something There Is
We’ve built these walls before.
Parceled out lands we don’t understand
don’t own — don’t know.
We’ve built walls
to hold them in — whoever they
may be today.
Abu Ghraib. Guantanamo.
Some place with yellow stars.
We’ve built walls
to keep us safe,
semantics made of stone
the us, the them.
We’ve built these walls
as definition, as dynasty:
Qin Shi Huang’s and Hadrian’s
still standing.
We’ve built these walls before
but not the water cannons
to remind those waiting to cross
of who they lost along the way.
We’ve built these walls before
but we forget
and build again
the same wall, a new them,
who once were us.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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