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Tag: Poetry

Silence Was My Father’s Fortress. I Shared It for a Time Until Poetry Set Me Free.

Army paratrooper Bill Glose, young, grim-faced and holding an AK-47 in Iraq -- the photo that would grace the cover of his first book of poetry, 'Half a Man.'

I grew up on Air Force bases overseas, bouncing from one country to another. While most mothers were marking heights on kitchen door frames, mine was packing cupboards and taping boxes for yet another move. My father was a pilot, his plane an F-4 Phantom with a shark’s mouth painted on its nose. As it […]