FEAR, PAST AND PRESENT

Someone said our early memories
show lifelong worries, conflicts:

child shocked by fifties horror
movie:  jerking clacking dead in

antique divers' suits their faces
grave mud slimy pocks they spoke of

death dismemberment proud ship they
sunk their venue no need for air

hose to the surface—they come to her
at night; child shocked by air raid

drills at school thought of radiation
sickness first the flash then no air

safe—the vomiting the clumps of 
hair no cure in sight; dread loss of

a limb its perfect absence air where
a friend was—

— Mary Winters


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