When ImagesMake War
WHEN IMAGES MAKE WAR IN WINTER
words celebrate
irony: Gosden and Correll,
old inkfaces blazing
for no exit, blazing
in justice, blazing
forever more the faux-blackness
of what James believed to be "the real thing."
When truth is truly told
Rastus, Jemima, and Ben
take paper to pen,
implode boxes, deform cages,
liberate graven images
of iconic laughter,
eradicate soul damage.
Such epic chaos
has become the duration of beauty,
the unheard noise of peace,
the unseen evidence of treaties yet unsigned.
Jerry W. Ward, Jr. December 21,2019
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