Donny plays like he’s fighting for his life, like he’s flushing
a fever, saving orphans, damming a flooding river. Forgive
the jagged attack. Play with the fury of the bereaved. Like
soldiers they’d tried to communicate over static smoke.
The war has no solution for marriage. Start with warning
shots. Kandahar is the backdrop of the unconscious, broken
walls where children pick bullet casings for play, where
slow suicides...
Naomi Guttman is the author of Reasons for Winter (Brick Books, 1991) and Wet Apples, White Blood (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007), which won the Adirondack Center for the Arts Literary Award for Best Book of Poems. Her novella-in-verse, The Banquet of Donny & Ari: Scenes from the Opera, will be published by Brick Books in March 2015.
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