Summer camp, scrapped
for the Taliban at Camp David,
the outing such a secret
not even the Taliban knew
if there’d be time for swimming
before their bombs blew.
The commander and chief
counselor promised
hot dogs and marshmallows,
airplane rides, and maybe
if they were good a story
around the campfire
about thousands of ghosts
who still haunt the woods.
David Feela writes a monthly column for The Four Corners Free Press and for The Durango Telegraph. A poetry chapbook Thought Experiments won the Southwest Poet Series. The Home Atlas appeared in 2009. A collection of his essays How Delicate These Arches was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. Unsolicited Press released his newest chapbook Little Acres in April 2019.
