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Oliver Hale

Poetry

Winter 1949

Old War Film

By Oliver Hale

Is it here that this soldier fell,the grotesque legs in a wide sprawl, in the flat of the newsreel? Or yesterday in Italythat he clutched at the falling sky,in defenseless […]

Poetry

Winter 1949

Soldier Body, Jerusalem

By Oliver Hale

This is nothing but ragtag and bobtail,bears no relation to him; those wide eyes,through which runs a river of emptiness, their human history do not reveal. For the tongue is […]