Silk Purse I: An Erasure
from Donald Trump’s Speech to AIPAC 3/21/16
By Douglas Wood
The bomb clock
doesn’t require a number
but zero,
No matter,
The wiped face
of the earth
What kind of minds write
in twisted missiles
and the swirling terms
imposed by disaster—
disaster repeated
in the hope
it didn’t happen?
But it’s precisely
the opposite population
that will rise
and move the eternal,
knowing the unbreakable
will forever exist
It could be happening now
Douglas Wood’s work has been published in Narrative Magazine, The Rattling Wall, Rise Up Review, Coachella and TheEeel (
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