Herland Sister Resources

With no more introduction than “today’s dead,”
they stare at us from the Lehrer Report,
each static face, accompanied only by name,
rank, age, and home town:  Kalamazoo,
Eagle Pass, Tulsa . . .
Brief notice of their passing from this world,
their silence echoing in a landscape that history
has refined to myth, places faintly remembered
from old grammar school text books:
Tigris, Euphrates, Fertile Crescent, Mesopotamia,
vague and coldly distant, like the “leader of the
free world” who sent them to that place of death.

Dorothy Alexander