David Selzer is a writer of poetry, prose fiction, screenplays and stage plays. He embraces digital platforms to share his work of more than fifty years… READ MORE


  • WILDNESS

     August ’91, the Gulf War over, Kuwaiti oilwells  almost saved,

    Kurds beleaguered, Marsh Arabs gassed…

     

    From Schipol’s Duty Free, slow with tourists,

    to Immigration at O’Hare, slow with Croatian refugees,

    seemed like a long day with an early start…

     

    But for icebergs still loose and multiplying

    along Greenland’s uncompromising coast,

    the  tawny, unmarked  miles of tundra,

    the empty, unpeopled miles…



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