The Veteran.

• Author: Kaufman, John
• Position: Poem

The Veteran I Swore that if I lived, if I dodged the bullets and bombs, I'd go back home and knock on every door and talk of what I saw-- how blood melts the snow, how birds peck at the open maw of children, how old women aim a glance you cannot bear. But all I do since I've been back is pace this shore looking for a shell, a fish, anything I've never seen. John Kaufman's poems have been published in Long...