“Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czesław Miłosz” by Matthew Oldman

A poem by alum Matthew Olzmann (poetry, ’09) appears in Poets.org’s Poem-a-Day series:

You whom I could not save,
Listen to me. 

Can we agree Kevlar
backpacks shouldn’t be needed

for children walking to school?
Those same children

also shouldn’t require a suit
of armor when standing

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