POP SMOKE & PRAY | Frank Barry Smith
Frank Barry Smith, now retired and living in Washington state, served as a combat medic in the Vietnam war. This collection of poetry--written mostly while in Vietnam--chronicles first and foremost the friendships made and lost during war time. "I have made friends and lost them / in ways more quickly than some / but less than others..." Smith writes in "THE MIDDLE," ironically the book's final poem. POP SMOKE & PRAY is a book of memory, a book of fear, a book of observation, a book of confusion and youth and a time that seemed to go at lightspeed while the long days still dragged into even longer nights; but, most importantly, POP SMOKE & PRAY is a book about love and its ability to remain and be found in the worst situations. Frank Barry Smith studied poetry under Philip Levine, Robert Mezey, and John Logan.POP SMOKE & PRAY is 58 pages, 6" x 9", and printed on cream interior paper. For now you can purchase this book thru PayPal in the sidebar.
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DRY MONSOON
When the blades stopped turning
and the turbines spun to silence
the word came down the weather
and the weather came down
from the black hot sky
and sifted the ground
through slits
in the wind-bowed tent walls
where we waited
listening to A.F.V.N.
on the portable radio
without light or air power
while the anchored choppers rocked
and the war stopped
for the moving air.
.
.
When the blades stopped turning
and the turbines spun to silence
the word came down the weather
and the weather came down
from the black hot sky
and sifted the ground
through slits
in the wind-bowed tent walls
where we waited
listening to A.F.V.N.
on the portable radio
without light or air power
while the anchored choppers rocked
and the war stopped
for the moving air.
.
.
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