For The Union Dead Comments

Such a pity there are typographical mistakes in the printing above. It should read: 'My hand draws back. I often sigh now...' 'The stone statues of the abstract Union Soldier...' '... and younger each year— ' 'There are no statues for the last war here' 'showed Hiroshima boiling' Is there any possibility of correcting the text please?

A superb, evocative poem of the Civill War from the perspective of the North. 'Colonel Shaw and his bell- cheeked Negro infantry'. How memorable are, 'The stone statues of the abstract Union Soldier'. A great poet.

He is out of bounds now. He rejoices in man's lovely, peculiar power to choose life and die- when he leads his black soldiers to death, he cannot bend his back. This line is very nice

my hand tingled to burst the bubbles drifting from the noses of the cowed, compliant fish. the speaker is still remembering the excitement of being at the aquarium. He was so captivated that he wanted to reach in a pop the bubbles coming from the mouths of the fish

' Relinquunt Ommia Servare Rem Publicam ' They gave up all to serve the republic. the Latin phrase is engraved in the actual Civil War memorial

I have a vision to write like this, only if god would bless me enough to.lm

GLORY Perhaps Keats Ozymandius one or the other was right The Instant The Memory are The Fleet The Monument remains for ever withstanding The Vagaries of The Moment