Nov. 12th, 2012

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was yesterday...

But we are observing Veteran's Day today here in the US.

Like last year, here's picture of new memorial to Wilfrid Owens: the old farm house where he spent the night before he died in the battle of the Sambre-Oise Canal, Nov.4, 1918, one of the last actions of the war, has been transformed into a memorial to his poetry:



article here

And two 2012 poems by Kevin Powers:

"Death, Mother and Child" and "After Leaving Maguire Veteran's Hospital for the Last Time"

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