Saturday, March 9, 2013

Taps

At Harrison's Landing
   the day lies ebbing
       a sheet
Of last light on the James River;
A gaggle of snowgeese
Murmurs on the flat water
By the Civil War shrine
Where the brass elegy "Taps"
Was first sounded,
Echoing down the far chambers
           of the mind

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