One day in a Pasadena bookstore, I accidentally
found Of Poetry and Power.
It came out in 1964 and
features many of the best
poets in America
pondering JFK’s death, including
Robert Frost, John Berryman and W.H. Auden.
“Bulletin” (just twelve lines) is my favorite poem
from this collection.
Here’s a Wikipedia link to
the poet who died in
2017 and was only 23 when she wrote it.
Bulletin
by Chana Faerstein
Is dead. Is dead. How all
The radios sound the same.That static is our seed.
Is dead. We heard. Again.
We peck at the words like
bran
Strung on a string of air.Is dead. Again. Is dead.
Too rhythmic for despair.
Our faces are all the
same,
Learning to taste the
word.Lockjawed with awkwardness.
Is Dead. We know. We heard.
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