civil war

Untitled, 072820131301 [draft For Gettysburg, Whitman]

Smell the breath of grass First at their backs and bayonetted sides Because this, the duty of the living:

July 28, 2013

Joseph M. Gerace

poetry

America, civil war, colors, death, first draft, history, humanity, landscape, life, mortality, New York Times, Pennsylvania, philosophy, poetry, rumination, scansion, war, Whitman