Dave Conlin Read
Memorial Day
But for peonies or daffodils perhaps,
leave the stone etched with the name of your dead
alone to cast shadows across the grass day after day
And keep your little flag handy to wave at the parade
or to poke in the eye of politicians who spill blood
as if they were merely spending money.
Dave Conlin Read studied poetry at SUNY Oswego in the 1970s, went to law school afterwards, then returned to poetry in the new millennium. Poems, essays, reviews, and interviews have appeared in Baltimore Magazine, Q Magazine, The Berkshire Eagle, The Berkshire Record, Oswego County Times, and Taos Art News.
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