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"Time is Blood"

Awarded a University & College Poetry Prize by the Academy of American Poets, a poem by Alysse Kathleen McCanna MFA ’15 was recently published on the Academy’s website. 

Time is Blood

 

says the Syrian diplomat

to the NPR correspondent

 

the hard whistle of rockets

filters through a satphone

 

the grainy grit of newsprint hides

the bodies of children

beneath a thumb