Autumn Leaves volume 7 number 6

Broken

for Dan, missing comrade
Vietnam, 1969

by John D. Berry

I asked you to send me,
A Tiger tooth.

Thoughtless that
Tiger needed it more.

You sent one home.

Buddha was
Carved on top.

Appropriately,
He was broken.

Copyright © 2003, John D. Berry, all rights reserved.

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