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By JULIE McNEILL
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There are too many moments
that we forget
that there is a war
that bombs and shells
and the dead fall
elsewhere.
My son asks
if he will be put on a train
if he will be sent to a camp
if he will have to wear a star
and leave us
I say to him no
not today
not yet
not us.
Julie McNeill is the Poet-in-Residence for St Mirren FC Charitable Trust and Makar for the Hampden Collection. She is the author of Mission Dyslexia a non fiction children’s book and Ragged Rainbows published by HybridDreich in 2021. Her latest poetry collection Something Small is available now through Drunk Muse Press, https://www.drunkmusepress.com/.
Poetry submissions to [email protected]
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