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| Photo by Ernest Brown |
Dark nights descending
Slanted light illuminates
Bullets ricochet
Each man states his truth
Means to justify their lies
Smoke and ashes fly.
Questioning their story
Trusting is required now
Storms toss our beliefs
Heroes emerging.
Lynnie Gobeille is one of the co-founders of The Origami Poems Project, a world wide “free poetry event” based in Rhode Island. She has published in The Sow's Ear Review, Crone’s Nest, The Avatar, The Prairie Home Companion, This I Believe (NPR), New Verse News, The Providence Journal (Poetic License) and The Naugatuck River Review. Her micro-chapbooks have been published by The Origami Poems Project.
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