Three Poems by Daniel Tobin
Poetry faculty member Daniel Tobin has three poems featured in Berfrois. Read an excerpt of “The Retreat” below and all three poems at the link.
The Retreat
To Wilfred Owen
Alone in your namesake rooms, I watch cattle
tromping hill-fields. Contented souls. No guns
mowing down the doomed in rows. The rattle
is in my head—quashed wounds, wrongs, orisons
like an unhinged dissonance of passé bells
gonging on. No diapasons of silken choirs.
Continue reading “The Retreat” as well as “The Marches” and “Always” here : ‘The Retreat’, ‘The Marches’ and ‘Always’ by Daniel Tobin – Berfrois