
From Matthew Olzmann’s “The Tiny Men in The Horse’s Mouth”:
[read more]The war is ending. Achilles is dead.
Paris lives on in shame.And one man
plays piano as the city burns.I’ve been there. And because I didn’t look,
I never saw it coming.
Olzmann’s poem “Sir Isaac Newton’s First Law of Motion” appeared in NER 30.4.