Burnside Bridge, Sept. 17, 1862

 By Thomas Keith, Grade 10, L.C. Anderson High School, TX
A snapshot of the Battle of Antietam.
Genre  Poem   Topic  War, History, Death

The scattered bastards of cornfields and wheatfields and lathes,/all grouped together in a foaming mass,/the strange sharp fury of a tired lover/within their breasts, stood under the cockeyed look/of oak-larks...

ID 29473   Published in Merlyn's Pen Annual #2

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