all war
buries children
in an earthen wound
i put my full
weight into
my conviction:
the wound is a hungry
mouth, and
all war is gluttony
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- SRM
- Shannon McKeehen, author of Barbra in Shadow, Just a Trick of the Light, and the poetry blog These Cells Are Passages, is a writer and teacher who received her MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College and her PhD in Rhetoric and Composition from Kent State University. She is a Lecturer of Composition at Cuyahoga Community College.
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Disclaimer: All writing © 2008-2026, Shannon McKeehen. Further, most pieces that appear on this blog are "works in progress" undergoing multiple revisions and drafts. On occasion, there is foul language. Such contents do not reflect the views of the author's employers.