Rumours of war

Posted on September 2, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

I dreamed of the young ones on graduation day.
They were leaving for war, assembled
rank and file on the high school field,
the front line singled out and sent away.
We tried to reach them for a parting embrace;
too many bodies lay between us.
The sun, stealing down behind the football posts,
fell upon her fresh, flushed face.

About Rosalind C Hughes

Rosalind C Hughes is a priest and author living near the shores of Lake Erie. After growing up in England and Wales, and living briefly in Singapore, she is now settled in Ohio. She serves an Episcopal church just outside Cleveland. Rosalind is the author of A Family Like Mine: Biblical Stories of Love, Loss, and Longing (Upper Room Books, 2020). She loves the lake, misses the ocean, and is finally coming to terms with snow.
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