boxed & delighted

boxed & delighted 

we sit 

knowing now is not the time

to speak 

whether in doting monologues

or mythic verse 

but sit we sit 

holding our own 

with ancestral night

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George Bandy's publications include War, Literature & the Arts (USAF), New Millennium Writings, Baltimore Review, Blue Unicorn, The Saturday Evening Post, Broadkill Review, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Neologism Poetry Journal, Broad River Review and The Southern Poetry Anthology: Vol. IX, Virginia. His poem "Return from War" won the Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Award.