2 March 2003 | Vol. 3, No. 1
Clichés After Eden—New & Selected
"Am I my brother's keeper?"
Like the fuel load of bombers,
clichés come squared and balanced:
"despicable, cowardly"
"the collateral damage"
"heroic defenders of…"
(the kesselschlacht of your choice)
"war is hell let's rock and roll."
And when we forgot the first:
"let us go into the field,"
shattered things took shape again.
About the author:
Jeffrey Alfier is a technical writer dividing his time between Tucson, Arizona, and Bechhofen, Germany. He holds an MA in Humanities, and formerly served as an adjunct faculty member with City Colleges of Chicago's European Division. He is a member of the United Poets Coalition. His previous and upcoming publishing credits include A Time of Trial (Canada, 2002), Border Senses, Columbia Review, Poetry Greece, Stolen Island Review, the Richmond Review, and Valparaiso Poetry Review.
For further reading:
Browse the contents of 42opus Vol. 3, No. 1, where "Clichés After Eden—New & Selected" ran on March 2, 2003. List other work with these same labels: poetry.
