Posted by David Selzer in Poetry on September 17th, 2009
 August ’91, the Gulf War over, Kuwaiti oilwells almost saved,
Kurds beleaguered, Marsh Arabs gassed…
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From Schipol’s Duty Free, slow with tourists,
to Immigration at O’Hare, slow with Croatian refugees,
seemed like a long day with an early start…
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But for icebergs still loose and multiplying
along Greenland’s uncompromising coast,
the tawny, unmarked miles of tundra,
the empty, unpeopled miles…
beleagured, Croatian, Greenland, Gulf War, icebergs, Kurds, Kuwaiti, Marsh Arabs, O'Hare, Schipol, tundra
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