I would like to submit two new, unpublished poems to I Am Not a Silent Poet. The first is my poem about the current crisis in Syria and the second is by Antony Owen, who says his poem was written in response to mine and is happy for me to submit them together. Antony and I are currently working together on a new, collaborative collection about the last hundred years of war.
Kakistocracies, by Isabel Palmer
Noun: Government by the worst people
This is the house that Trump made,
its drains and gutters over-run, his words
rat-droppings in the night.
This is the child, legs folded under him
like a cat’s: thorns, forgotten
for a hundred years, in its paws.
These are the dogs of war,
off the leash, rolling over
Syria, licking their balls.
This is the girl, cow-eyed
and crumpled under the hose,
bubbles bursting from her…
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