4th in the WinteRed series, Bullets Retrieved is a long collage poem based on King Philip's war (1675-76) between the Wampanoag Indians and the white settlers of New England.
If we cannot hope for boughs split
Beneath our route from Plymouth
To Providence--State of his Hope
If we cannot see his skin granite
Rolled from a mast-red Hope
These men with their muskets line
Sunless rocks like ants marched for slaughter
And we hope the berries on split
Branches redden
RACHEL MORITZ's chapbook, The Winchester Monologues, won the 2005 New Michigan Press Competition. Her poetry is forthcoming or recently published in Colorado Review, Court Green, Denver Quarterly, How2, and 26. With Juliet Patterson, she is the poetry editor at Konundrum Literary Engine: http://lit.konundrum.com/
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