Poem: Gunfight In Manhattan

Written on March 2, 2010 by allen in Poems

I’m a little slow in announcing this, but my poem “Gunfight In Manhattan” has been published in the online journal My Favorite Bullet.

The poem is a part of my upcoming collection Rumsfeld’s Sandbox and follows the publication of other poems in the collection. Those poems include:

“Battlefield Confession”
“Cigar”
“Life”
“Love And War”
“Old Goth”
“20 Acres”
“Nocturne: Battlefield Sonnet”
“The Armor Dims”
“Carcass”
“Siege”
and “I Like War”

You will soon be able to read Rumsfeld’s Sandbox online as a digital book with audio presentations and downloadable .PDF broadsides and chapbooks. The planned publication date is March 19. Savvy readers will know that this is the anniversary date of the Iraq invasion, particularly the air strike on the presidential palace in Iraq.

More information will be published soon regarding Rumsfeld’s Sandbox. Meanwhile, take a peak at “Gunfight In Manhattan“.

E. Able

March 2, 2010 | 7:27 pm

Wow. That’s powerful.

the poet
March 2, 2010 | 8:56 pm

Thanks! Glad you liked it.

jhonbaker

March 3, 2010 | 2:04 pm

I really liked the imagery produced here, at the link really. I have lived fairly far out where instead of firefights of celebrations we would hear hunters – having much the same meaning, only not, as the ending of your poem.

the poet
March 3, 2010 | 4:25 pm

Thanks, Jhon, for stopping by and reading. And thanks for commenting.

reremj

April 26, 2010 | 10:53 am

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