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by Sara Myers
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Not missing you in the way where I
Would want to be reunited with you.
But I do very much want you to fare well –
I remember the lovely tree in 2011 that
Stood on my way to work.
I wondered if it knew there was war?
Could the bird sense something?
How did the tree continue on with flowers
When so much misery was there?
I finally found the asphalt site where
We loaded the wounded back in 2005.
Finding it gave some closure, some recognition of
A fixed point existing from one deployment to another.
So, I do think of you Oh Iraq.
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