James Laughlin
STEP ON HIS HEAD
let's step on daddy's head shout
the children my dear children as
we walk in the country on a sunny
summer day my shadow
bobs
dark on
the road as we walk and they jump
on its head and my love for them
fills me all full of soft feelings
now I duck with my head so they'll
miss when they jump & they screech
with delight and I moan oh you're
hurting you're hurting me stop and
they jump all the harder and love
fills that road but I see it run
on through the years and I know
how some day they must jump when
it won't
be
this shadow but really
my head (for I stepped on my own
father's head) it will hurt really
hurt and I wonder if then I will
have love enough will I have love
enough when it's not just a game?
Louis O. Coxe
THE VETERAN
Alive where I lie and hide,
Ghosts and desires by night
With war and its vessels ride
On dream and my heart, in spite
