Craig Erick Chaffin Poems

At the Vietnam War Memorial

Black granite stretches its harsh, tapering wings
up to pedestrian-level grass
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On the Anthropic Principle

Here at the spoke-ends of our galaxy
it is easy to forget the central axle
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Pawn

My head is beaten like a sunflower,
bowed and haggard, brown petals hanging
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A Time to Weep

I suppose you could call me heartless
as a dull anvil clanking in a sodden barn,
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Last Poem of my 45th Year

I
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In Your Hands

The desert two-lane flashes
its white segments so quickly
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Not all were old.
A young man in a motorized chair
waved at the sea with arms
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