"The past is never dead, it is not even past."
~William Faulkner
Dedication
They have been given
flags, these children,
to plant between the stones–
decorated sticks, each insertion
point chosen with grave
care, the same they give to tugging
lace tights onto stiff-kneed
baby dolls, building
landing craft from perforated
plastic blocks, and arraying–
piece by piece–
squads of battered
soldiers along the arms
of couch and chair.
They have been given
flags, these children.
-Sara Lewis Holmes
From RN Clara Hart's post at The Sandbox:
It’s Memorial Day and while I want to remember, I don’t want to remember. I don’t want to remember my friends killed on September 11th, or the others who've died serving our great country. Those who I’ve worked so hard to save only to fail. I don’t want to remember the broken bodies I try so hard to fix. I don’t want to remember the scarred hearts that may never be mended. Read the rest.
