Poems from Kurt Philip Behm
Are you bigger in your absence
than your presence could command
Is your memory that much stronger
than your being when at hand
Does the...
The right to remember,
the right to recall
The right to uncover,
the right to forestall
The right to nostalgia,
the right to look back...
Fear, the ghost of indecision
where darkness stalks each day
Confusion our ignoble master,
bewildered we fall prey
Terror caught in...
The thrill is gone, but its memory remains
in flashes that come in the night
The names have all changed, but faces stare back
forsaken,...
The bigotry of isolation,
prejudice of despair
The future in your rear window
—abandoned beyond repair
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July...