Poets Against the War Book

	Introduction
	Casualty	1
	Cranes in August	1
	Geese, October 2002	2
	Billy Bush Sam-ton	4
	Of a Forgetful Sea	6
	Gatha	8
	Pathetic Lines/Pobres versos	8
	January 2003; Vermont	10
	On His Way to Kuwait	12
	What to Count	14
	The Clay's Memory	15
	The White House Has Disinvited the Poets	17
	Draft-Dodgers vs. Poetry-Dodgers	19
	Untitled	21
	The Permanent Fragility of Meaning	23
	War Breaks Out Again	24
	Ohio Elegy	25
	Collateral Damage	27
	Destiny is Memory	29
	Waiting for the Barbarians	30
	Mondrians Forest	32
	A Lesson from the Corps	36
	The New Rapture	37
	Syria, 1997	38
	Search and Destroy	39
	Call and Answer	40
	Statement of Conscience	41
	Poetry & the American Voice	42
	Belief	45
	Complaint and Petition	46
	The War	48
	Riverside Ghazal	49
	stones and bones	50
	Letter to Sam Hamill	50
	Flags	52
	War	53
	Ground Zero	56
	Beatitudes	57
	Statement of Conscience	58
	Umoja: Each one of us Counts	59
	Doing Zazen on the Snow in Front of the Colorado State Capitol an Unknown Number of Days Before my Country Attacks Iraq	61
	The Weather in Herat	62
	Compression	63
	Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100	64
	Blue Herons	66
	Speak Out	68
	Shore	70
	I Have Never Wanted to March	70
	Army Burn Ward	74
	At Wat Umong	75
	Rural Electric and Statement of Conscience	76
	Spring Offensive	78
	Guard Duty	80
	Poetry of Bodies	81
	Morning News	82
	Poem for an Iraqi Child in a Forgotten News Clip	84
	Imagine	86
	Difficult to Sleep	87
	from Maddie (age 9)	88
	Sheepherder Coffee	89
	Statement of Conscience	90
	Veterans Day	92
	Igneous	94
	No	95
	Sometimes the Wider World Can Only Be Apprehended Obliquely	97
	Poem of War	98
	Email for Sam and Ballad of a Dissenter	99
	swarming	101
	Green Pants and a Bamboo Flute	102
	The Dead Do Not Want Us Dead	104
	The Kind of Shadow that Calls Out to Fate	104
	Anniversary	106
	Baghdad	107
	The Monument	109
	The Last Threshold	111
	The Olive Wood Fire	112
	Gulf War	113
	New Hampshire, February 7, 2003	114
	Statement of Conscience	116
	Wartime Radio	117
	Cello	118
	American Wars	119
	Statement of Conscience and Untitled	120
	Tale of A Doorknob and Statement of Conscience	121
	Writing my diary with water	123
	The Palace of Lists	124
	Memorial Day	126
	The Peace Bell	127
	Snow Woman	128
	Peace On The Land We Live On	129
	Denial	130
	The seeds of the peace martyrs have borne fruit	131
	Letter to Hayden	133
	From: Shema	134
	Statement of Conscience and Ogres	136
	A Palace of Pearls (excerpt)	139
	Suicide Note	140
	The Woman of Baghdad	141
	Brave Woman	142
	The Truth as I See It ... Circa 2003	144
	Ledger	146
	Apres Moi, Le Deluge	149
	Bad Fairies	150
	The House of Bush	151
	I Do Not Want You, Petroleum	153
	Voices	153
	Unrhymed Peace Sonnet	156
	War Haiku	157
	Whose Wonderland Is This?	157
	I Write This to Report ...	160
	The Grace of Angels	161
	To the Forty-third President of the United States of America	163
	Refusing	167
	No Choice	168
	Thistle	169
	History	170
	The Poem in Time of War	172
	kunishi ridge 2nd bn. first marines	173
	Asleep at the wheel	175
	What Is Lost	177
	Choices	179
	Statement of Conscience	180
	Markers	182
	Trying to Write a Poem Against the War	183
	After the Anti-War March	184
	Eavesdropping on America	185
	Sandhill Cranes Circling their Targets	186
	The Man Who Loved Music (In memory of Junius Scales, 1920-2002)	187
	We Are Waiting for Peace to Break Out	188
	The School Among the Ruins	190
	February 2003 - A sonnet	194
	Natural History	195
	A Plea	196
	Statement of Conscience and The Dream & Lie of George W. Bush	198
	10	200
	Untitled	204
	The Presence of Justice	205
	We Guide, We Follow	206
	Statement of Conscience and The Journey Home	207
	Not a War Song	208
	Enough	209
	Statement of Conscience and American Light	212
	On A Photograph of a Severed Hand	214
	Statement of Conscience	216
	If There Were No Days, Where Would We Live	217
	Children Playing - after the Persian Gulf War	219
	Untitled	220
	Be Serious	222
	We	223
	The Aphrodisiac	224
	Guernica Pantoum	225
	Freedom From Speech	227
	none. a tanka	228
	Choral Song	228
	Chiapas	231
	Cambridge Rant	232
	You Go On With Your Dying (After Mark Strand)	236
	Planet of Smoke and Cloud	238
	Mouth-Organs and Drums	239
	Doomsday Verse	240
	Bloom's Photograph	241
	Global Positioning	243
	You Say	245
	January 31, 2003	246
	On Looking Through a Photo Album (of Viet Cong Prisoners)	247
	Victory Gardens	249
	War	250
	Found in the Free Library	253
	Tomoko Uemura Is Bathed by Her Mother	255
	East of New York	257
	sanctuary under a palm frond	258
	O Alive Who Are Dead	259
	Search and Rescue	260
	Shopping List	262
	Acknowledgments	265