A small, straw basket
Full of medals
From good old wars
No one recalls.
I flipped one over
To feel the pin
That once pierced
The hero's swelling chest.
Charles Simic
from "That Little Something"
Full of medals
From good old wars
No one recalls.
I flipped one over
To feel the pin
That once pierced
The hero's swelling chest.
Charles Simic
from "That Little Something"