Peter Filkins Biography

Many years later, while contemplating beauty
as order, he would think of them: gamecocks
sharpening their claws for a scrap, and how
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Be it a whisper, be it a raspy cough,
whatever sets it off is soon forgotten,
the high faint rumble at first mistaken
for an airplane's passing roar, a gust of wind
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I

When Hitler married Eva Braun
just days before committing suicide,
the war now lost, the Allies advancing,
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for James Lasdun

'Topped, dropped & chipped 2 dead white birch trees'
reads the bill arriving one week later.
The damage? 'Labor & Equipment - $250,'
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Daniel Pearl (1963-2002)

My father was a Jew, my mother was a Jew,
and yet just what that means for me
I'm not really sure, are you?
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