Icy, wet afternoon
Out of place in May
Broken heart
Shattered
Amongst standard steel desks
Scattered photographs
Of a happier time
Heart, you have no place here.
Faded fatigues
How proudly you display
Courage?
Cloke of the dead
In the end
Nobody Wins
The flame that flashed a bright marching red
Burns no more
Reality extinguishes
Off, off to war in silence
In silence he remains
Far from me, far away
My soldier, my love.
Pamela Duffey wrote The Armory while a student at LaSalle University in Philadelphia in 1983. It was published in the Spring of 1984 in LaSalle’s literary magazine, “Grimoire.” She lives in Holland with her husband, Gerry, and three sons.
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